[AccessD] Please Advise: Should I Buy "Microsoft Visual Basic.NET Standard 2003 ..."

>>Charlotte Foust mentioned that she actually has some real experience
with VB.NET and web programming.  I wonder how long it took her to get
"up to speed" (and proficient) with these technologies?

LOL

Who says I'm up to speed and proficient?   I'm learning every day, but
fortunately we hired a guy who is more experienced in dot net, so we're
playing leap frog as we go along--earn while you learn time.<VBG>  We
have a small web-based app that is a companion product to one of our
Access apps and he and I are working on porting the next version of the
Access app to VB.Net, with a whole new interface.  

It helps that I spent a lot of time programming in ADO and using classes
before I had to dive into dot net.  That gave me a big leg up.  I would
have hated trying to learn dot net without the prior experience of
building and using class objects and working with ADO, the shift in
paradigms would have been a killer.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Lawhon, Alan C Contractor/Morgan Research
[mailto:alan.lawhon at us.army.mil] 
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:50 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Please Advise: Should I Buy "Microsoft Visual
Basic.NET Standard 2003 ..."


Jim:

To say that we're just a bit "nervous" about this upcoming "adventure"
is a vast understatement.  The senior systems analyst, (who has never
wrote a line of "web enabled" code in his life), is in the process of
figuring out how to "curb" our customer's expectations - and
simultaneously manage our "stress level" - while the senior programmer
and I get "up to speed" on HTML, XML, ADO.NET, VB.NET, and whatever else
we'll have to learn.  (Our Senior Systems Analyst is a firm proponent of
the theory that you should "manage your customer" [and your customer's
expectations] rather than having your customer manage you ...)
<snip>