[AccessD] Action Pack, now with special edition toolkit for Web Solution Providers

...as usual, most of that kind of whoooshed right on by me  ...but congrats 
on the anniversary :)

...I will say that I've been very surprised by how easily large parts of my 
Access code ported to vb.net and eventually C# ...a couple of paradigm 
changes in understanding inheritance and objects but otherwise I'm finding 
it at least as easy as vba ever was ...and there are so many freaking things 
that dotnet does automagically that Access pales in comparison ...and I've 
just begun to poke at its possibilities.

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for Web 
Solution Providers


> Yes, that would be very useful to talk about C# in DBA-CS (?).
>
> IMO C# is great not only as very laconic and powerful programming language
> etc.etc. but also because it's so easy to post and copy and paste and run
> code samples written on C# and posted in e-mail messages where they can 
> get
> "screwed"/wrapped out because of message's text line length limitations 
> etc.
>
> Here is a simple sample to demonstrate this C# feature-by-design:
>
> Save the following two lines into hw.cs:
>
> using System;class hw {static void Main(){Console.WriteLine("\nHello,
> World!\n");}}
>
> Save the following seven lines into csc.bat
>
> @echo off
> echo Compiling hw.cs...
> C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\csc.exe hw.cs /nologo
> echo Running hw.exe...
> hw.exe
> pause
> del hw.exe
>
> In the case you have .NET Framework installed in
> C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 you'll get the following
> results while running csc.bat:
>
> Compiling hw.cs...
> Running hw.exe...
>
> Hello, World!
>
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> Of course you can generalize this idea to have parameterized batch files 
> as
> well as csc.exe and/or vbc.exe response files as well as msbuild.exe 
> project
> files as well as ... - then you can get very advanced samples compiled and
> built from source files without VS and "automagically" tested if samples
> will be supplied with (unit) tests for tools like NUnit...
>
> And with some more efforts you can get agile software factory continually
> integrating (CruseControl.NET) and (re-)deploying in hot mode your
> customers' applications automagically built from code snippets borrowed 
> from
> all corners of Internet...
>
> A kind of kidding about the latter of course but...
>
> And a funny story in the end:
>
> "I've got so angry today: when I've got back home I have found a diskette
> sticked by a magnet to the fridge's door with a note: 'Darling, here is 
> the
> diskette with important documents you've been desperately looking for all
> the yesterday evening...' "
>
> I must note that's not a story about my wife - I do not use diskettes for 
> a
> long time now :)
>
> BTW, we have a XXVI's Wedding Anniversary today...
>
> Have nice weekend. :)
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> P.S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:18 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for 
> Web
> Solution Providers
>
> There's a purely monetary reason for going that way, too. According to my
> admittedly loose stats, you make about +$15 an hour by claiming C# vs.
> VB.NET. I agree with you, William, C# is a piece of cake given even a
> modicum of VB.NET. But there seems to be a monetary advantage as well. And
> to be fair, there are a couple of things you can do in C# that you can't 
> in
> VB.NET.
>
> As to the name change, I'm seriously in favour. Who programs in VB6 any
> more? Somebody, somewhere, no doubt. But to preserve the name for him?
>
> A.
>
> On 10/12/07, William Hindman <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...imnsho, the name change would be most helpful ...I'm focusing on C#
>> rather than vb ...you might be amazed at how easy the move from vb to C#
>> really is, especially with the growing number of code translators
>> available
>> ...and you know if I can do it, anyone can :)
>>
>> William
>>
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