Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Dec 12 11:34:52 CST 2005
Amen to that, John. I love VB.Net and when I get dragged back into Access, I have a terrible time trying to do things that are quite simple in .Net and more complex in Access ... And vice versa! But I'll pretty much guarantee that a "learn it in a week/month/year" books aren't going to do it for anyone. There is so much more complexity to true n-tier development than in Access, that there is really no comparison. You roll your own structure and business rules and behavior in .Net in ways an Access developer can't imagine. And it is really important to learn that not only are variables like strings objects, but each time you do something like strA = strA & vbCrLf, you're creating a new instance of strA, and that has an impact on resources and behavior. It's even more complicated than learning Access 2002 from scratch without having gone through the earlier versions along the way. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:19 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: How To Learn VS 2005 >It's just a matter of learning how to do the stuff that Access handled >for you auto-magically and then learning the full syntax of .NET and VB versus VBA. LOL, that says a mouthful. .Net has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 times the content of VBA (my own estimation but if anything, conservative). There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000+ classes in the .net framework. EVERYTHING in .net is an object, including "simple variables" like integers and strings. This is NOT your daddy's VB. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Josh McFarlane Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:50 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: How To Learn VS 2005 On 12/11/05, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > Well, after spending some time at the bookshelf I got a Sams book > "Teach Yourself Visual Basic .Net 2003 in 21 days" (Holzner) - > probably take me > 121 but it looks pretty step-by-step - kind of like the Balter book I > used years ago to get into Access. That should provide a good starting basis. You've probably already got almost all of the "Design" knowledge from Access that you'll need. It's just a matter of learning how to do the stuff that Access handled for you auto-magically and then learning the full syntax of .NET and VB versus VBA. Let me know how it goes. I'm looking to expand my languages into something towards .NET, and maybe even delving further into VB. -- Josh McFarlane "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -Albert Einstein -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com