Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 14:03:14 CST 2005
David, Charlotte, Gustav, Jim D., Jim L., This seems to be an appropriate place to ask this question: what .NET support forums do you subscribe to? What technical publications do you read for .NET? What development and reporting tools do you use other than what Visual Studio provides? I guess that's three questions. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:20:20 -0800, dmcafee at pacbell.net <dmcafee at pacbell.net> wrote: > Exactly. I'm in the same boat as you and JC (IIRC). I'm now working with > .Net (C# & VB mainly). > > The company I work for would like to move all mdb/ADPs to .NET some day. I > have started converting some of my sample databases as a learning project. > Some things a neat, others are not. > > My boss asked if I could create a VB or C# program that would allow a user > to enter some information, connect to SQL and retrieve some more data, then > talk to some barcode label software so barcodes can be printed out. > > I created an ADP and designed my own UPC-A/EAN13 barcodes on the fly in VBA > and used the Free 3of 9 font and had a working copy in 3 days (creating the > dynamic barcaode was the hardest part). At our meeting to see how long it > would take me to complete the task, I already had a working copy. They were > amazed when they found out that it was create in Access. One program, enter > the info and it prints out the barcode, all in one step. > > I've always felt VB was great for creating DLLs or non DB use, which is why > I am probably having such a hard time with .Net and their return to flat > file-ism. > > David