[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Brett,

Do you use Visual Studio .NET for your VB.NET development? If so, did
you try the Crystal Reports generator? Any thoughts vs. the third
party tools?

Steve Erbach


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:10:23 -0600, Brett Barabash
<BBarabash at tappeconstruction.com> wrote:
> For anyone contemplating VB6 or VB.NET for your development, the one
> solid piece of advice that I can give you is to evaluate and purchase a
> decent 3rd party control suite.
> 
> The built-in flexgrid, listbox and combobox controls just plain suck.
> We own the ComponentOne ActiveX suite for VB6 and the Janus WinForms
> suite for .NET, and I am amazed at the power and flexibility they
> provide out of the box.
> 
> The TrueDBGrid (ComponentOne) and GridEx (Janus) controls have quite
> nicely filled the continuous subform void for us without any fancy
> programming.  A few lines of code, and my grid is bound directly to an
> ADO data source.
> 
> (although I probably spent a week of programming time to write a class
> to override ComponentOne's combobox functionality to act like the one in
> Access.  No .Value property?  What the heck were these guys smoking!)
>