Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Feb 23 15:16:06 CST 2005
CodeProject newlestter and publication, Visual Studio Magazine, a BUNCH of books, a bunch of newsgroups, Google search. We use DataDynamics ActiveReports for reporting and Infragistics controls for much of our interface building. I use MZ-Tools 4.0 for a lot of handy IDE utilities. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Steve Erbach [mailto:erbachs at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:03 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Making SQL Server NewID() work with a dataset in.net David, Charlotte, Gustav, Jim D., Jim L., This seems to be an appropriate place to ask this question: what .NET support forums do you subscribe to? What technical publications do you read for .NET? What development and reporting tools do you use other than what Visual Studio provides? I guess that's three questions. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:20:20 -0800, dmcafee at pacbell.net <dmcafee at pacbell.net> wrote: > Exactly. I'm in the same boat as you and JC (IIRC). I'm now working > with .Net (C# & VB mainly). > > The company I work for would like to move all mdb/ADPs to .NET some > day. I have started converting some of my sample databases as a > learning project. Some things a neat, others are not. > > My boss asked if I could create a VB or C# program that would allow a > user to enter some information, connect to SQL and retrieve some more > data, then talk to some barcode label software so barcodes can be > printed out. > > I created an ADP and designed my own UPC-A/EAN13 barcodes on the fly > in VBA and used the Free 3of 9 font and had a working copy in 3 days > (creating the dynamic barcaode was the hardest part). At our meeting > to see how long it would take me to complete the task, I already had a > working copy. They were amazed when they found out that it was create > in Access. One program, enter the info and it prints out the barcode, > all in one step. > > I've always felt VB was great for creating DLLs or non DB use, which > is why I am probably having such a hard time with .Net and their > return to flat file-ism. > > David -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com