[dba-VB] NetGender - The Software Company

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Sat Apr 19 13:51:12 CDT 2008


...nice looking library ...let us know what problems you run into with it 
...I may well be in the market for such myself in the near future.

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "VBA" <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: [dba-VB] NetGender - The Software Company


>I purchased a .Net library that does name splitting.
>
> http://www.softwarecompany.com/dotnet/netgender.htm
>
> It seems to work well just from using the little demo that you can
> download.  Now I am starting to actually work with it.  It consists of a
> single class, embedded in a dll that you reference, with properties to
> set to tell it all of the controlling stuff, then properties to hand it
> the name to split and read back the name pieces.
>
> The developer claims that it will handle between 2K and 3K names per
> second.  We shall see.
>
> So here I am trying to work with this thing.  The demo form is quite
> extensive and the code in the form shows how to read / write all of the
> properties to populate the form.
>
> I have a database with (of course) about 80 million names, in a single
> field, in the form LastName FirstName MiddleInitial (no commas etc)
> which needs parsing.  What I thought I would do (just for the moment) is
> to use the existing form and just feed in the names.  Thus I need to add
> a couple of properties to the form such that I can feed in names and get
> back the parsed pieces.  I will build a switch to tell the form to
> display the pieces or not, thus I could watch the process function if I
> wanted, though at the cost of slowing the process down.
>
> Modifications to the demo form to allow me to do all that stuff is just
> about complete.  What I need to know is the syntax to get a pointer to a
> form being opened.  I know that you just do a "Someform.Show" to open
> the form, but a parent form needs to get a pointer to this demo form and
> then use that pointer to set / retrieve properties.  How do I get a
> pointer to it once opened?
>
> -- 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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