[AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?

JWColby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue May 1 04:41:04 CDT 2007


LOL.  Me?  Obtuse?

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:21 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?

...obtuse, eh ...no wonder JC is so enamored of it :) William Hindman

----- Original Message -----
From: "MartyConnelly" <martyconnelly at shaw.ca>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?


>I would suggest, it is somewhere between 90 and 180 degrees,
> just so it could be an obtuse angle.
>
> Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
>>Hi All:
>>
>>My 2 cents on this is that most if not all developers on the Access List 
>>are
>>working on or/and will be moving towards Dot Net at one point. I see the
>>progress more as a migration process something like a 90 degree turn not 
>>as
>>a 180.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
>>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:55 AM
>>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?
>>
>>Does it belong in this list?   Also, there are differences between VS
>>2003 and VS 2005 when it comes to creating typed datasets.
>>
>>Charlotte
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:01 AM
>>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?
>>
>>Hi Charlotte
>>
>>Yes, that sounds like a learning experience.
>>
>>/gustav
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>kp at sdsonline.net 30-04-2007 04:31 >>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>Charlotte - any chance of stepping us dot net newbies thru an example of
>>what you mean?
>>
>>Kath
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Charlotte Foust
>>  To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>  Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:18 AM
>>  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?
>>
>>
>>  The chapters on ADO.Net give a good overview of datasets, data
>>providers
>>  and the actual relational objects (tables, views, etc.), and it also
>>  compares ADO.Net and ADO as well.  But I haven't seen any books
>>  describing the data tier structures in the way we built them.  Most of
>>  the books start with directly binding a form to a data adapter, and we
>>  work the other way around.  We build data "entities" that implement
>>  typed datasets and expose the behaviors and methods we need.  We can
>>  then drop one of those entities on a form or report to provide the
>>data
>>  connections we need.  The working code is actually in a dataprovider
>>  class with the entity containing calls to the dataprovider and even to
>>  other entities if need be.
>>
>>  Our model has evolved as we developed the apps and figured out what
>>  worked, and we have "refactored" (a much overused work in our shop)
>>the
>>  bits and pieces many times over the course of the past two years.
>>
>>  Charlotte Foust
>>
>>
>>
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