[AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Mon Mar 15 17:28:20 CDT 2010


...southern drawl ...hands down :)

William

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From: "David McAfee" <davidmcafee at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:53 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS

> We know that John, but which English?
>
> Southern California dude dialect?
> Texas Twang?
> New York GTFO of here?
>
> or those funny sounding guys that often misspell words over the pond? ;)
>
> D
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:43 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> 
> wrote:
>> English IS better!
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Jim Lawrence wrote:
>>> I full-heartedly agree with you. The basic creation of the .Net
>>> infrastructure was to allow the designer to write code in any way they 
>>> want.
>>>
>>>
>>> There are dozens of CLI languages that can be used and if you are 
>>> extending
>>> you applications to the web the count increases dramatically. You can 
>>> mix
>>> and match within a single app...Any mashup that can get an application
>>> running
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
>>>
>>> The argument that one language runs faster than another is simply not 
>>> true;
>>> any longer. My thought is use what ever language feels good to you or 
>>> has
>>> the most 'field tested' code and has the features you need.
>>>
>>> Single language apps are the old way of thinking. Show me what an
>>> application can do and frankly I could not care less what it was written 
>>> in.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is similar to saying English is better.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte 
>>> Foust
>>> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:30 AM
>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS
>>>
>>> Well, gentlemen,  I stand by VB.Net since I absolutely hate the C# 
>>> syntax
>>> and "punctuation".  I can read it, but I don't want to write it.  Of 
>>> course,
>>> since I'm old enough not to have to expect to keep doing this, I can 
>>> indulge
>>> myself by NOT learning C#.  I do rather object to the avalanche towards 
>>> it
>>> in the VB list, though.  Seems like the fact that the language isn't the
>>> important thing gets forgotten.
>>>
>>> Charlotte Foust
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:28 AM
>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS
>>>
>>> I second pretty much everything William said, EXCEPT that I did not find 
>>> C#
>>> syntax all that trivial
>>> to pick up.  But like William I forced myself to do it and I am happy I 
>>> did.
>>>
>>> John W. Colby
>>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>>
>>>
>>> William Hindman wrote:
>>>> ...vb.net and c#.net are virtually identical in their capabilities 
>>>> ...only
>>>
>>>> the syntax is significantly different in the latest versions and you'll
>>> pick
>>>> that up fairly quickly ...learning the net framework is the major 
>>>> effort,
>>>> not the language you choose to work in ...I started in vb.net because 
>>>> the
>>>> syntax seemed more familiar but that's really an illusion since it's 
>>>> very
>>>> different from vba in reality ...I've since moved to forcing myself to
>>> work
>>>> in c#.net because 1) that's where the work is and 2) that's what ~70% 
>>>> or
>>>> more of the on-line responses and sample code are written in ...and I 
>>>> live
>>>
>>>> on sample code ...besides which, there are some very good (and free)
>>> on-line
>>>> translators between the two now ...if I were starting over in net I'd 
>>>> pass
>>>
>>>> on vb.net and go straight to c#.net
>>>>
>>>
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