what happened to RobDog888

[Lord Orwell]

He hasn't been on for a year...

[Steve R Jones]

Last post was Dec 11, 2020 ....in the big COVID thread. Hope he didn't get bitten.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Seems like Lord Orwell vanished for an extended period of time, as well. RD was kind of sporadic up to that time. Hopefully, he's just been busy.

[FunkyDexter]

RD gave me my first ever answer on this forum.

[Lord Orwell]

I got locked out somehow. I had to convince a moderator to merge a new account i created because i didn't have access to the reset email since the provider i originally had no longer exists. I was gone for a while though. I don't have a lot of need for this site anymore tbh. I program at work in c# and android so it just doesn't come up. There's a c# forum on here but it's barely touched.

[Niya]

I program at work in c# and android so it just doesn't come up. There's a c# forum on here but it's barely touched.

There's the VB.Net section. 80% of the things we talk about in the VB.Net section boils down to some functionality in the .Net Framework . C# and VB.Net equally utilize the exact same framework.

[jmcilhinney]

There's the VB.Net section. 80% of the things we talk about in the VB.Net section boils down to some functionality in the .Net Framework . C# and VB.Net equally utilize the exact same framework.

I post on SO as well and I find that a lot of the C# questions actually aren't applicable to VB. There's a lot of Unity questions and I think that anything Xamarin-related, which Android development probably is, would not be overly relevant to VB either. Basic stuff crosses over pretty well but there's a lot of more advanced stuff that would be specific to C#.

[Niya]

I don't disagree but when I look at the majority of VB.Net questions on this site, they don't stand out as questions that C# programmers couldn't answer. Lets take the current top 3, a question about the DataGridView, a question about serial ports and one about downloading from URLs. All of these questions are really about stuff in .Net so I don't see why a C# programmer cannot help with those since he will be using the same framework.

[jmcilhinney]

I don't disagree but when I look at the majority of VB.Net questions on this site, they don't stand out as questions that C# programmers couldn't answer. Lets take the current top 3, a question about the DataGridView, a question about serial ports and one about downloading from URLs. All of these questions are really about stuff in .Net so I don't see why a C# programmer cannot help with those since he will be using the same framework.

I was looking at it more form the perspective of getting help. From the perspective of providing help, you're absolutely right.

[jmcilhinney]

I have no specific firsthand knowledge of Rob's situation but my impression was that the number of threads he was able to contribute to was significantly reduced because I and and some other people started visiting the site more frequently and getting in before him, so he just sorted of faded away and then just gave up. He was the resident Office expert but I don't see too many questions on that subject these days.

[dee-u]

He maybe busy with his business. I think he "retired" from programming as his main occupation.

[Lord Orwell]

in general, but the implementation has diverged in the two languages. You can make most code translate but some stuff you simply can't. C# has more features now.

And yes a c# programmer may know how to solve the problem in c#, but he may not know how to present that code sample in a way the asker can understand, since it will be in c#.