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That feel when you find a StackOverflow post for the exact question you had

Safia Abdalla on February 14, 2020

Heads up! This blog post is actually a reading log. I'm spending 30 minutes every day (more or less) reading C# via CLR by Jeffrey Richter and taki...
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Kamran Ayub

COM is a way to interop between languages. My experience with it had been in the context of Windows machines, like with older tech. You could consume COM APIs within .NET or Visual Basic macros in Excel.

Here's a good answer with more detail: stackoverflow.com/questions/748355...

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Safia Abdalla

Cool link -- thanks! Will dig into this more.

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Mugoya Dihfahsih

Stackoverflow is a savior in most instances when you are still struggling about the language, actually it has helped often when am time bound and the solution is needed.

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Anders Bo Rasmussen

My experience with StackOverflow is descriped beautifully in this xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png

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jeikabu

I've been praying for a new edition of CLR via C# for ages!😤

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joffff

...where you find the exact question is already posted on StackOverflow... by yourself, last time you encountered the problem 😶

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Henry

...and then you realize the question is for an older version of whatever framework/package you are using and no longer applies. ragequit