Michael Maddison
michael at ddisolutions.com.au
Wed Feb 23 22:19:37 CST 2005
Great lists here... http://discuss.develop.com/ cheers Michael M 1. Sites more than forums, Google helps much 2. BOL/MSDN Online, Various Dummies books: Visual Basic .Net for Dummies, Visual Basic .Net Database Programming for dummies, ASP.Net for Dummies, C# for Dummies, C# in 24 hours, several others from Sybex that I haven't cracked yet. 3. Crystal 8, 9 & 10. (Trying to get Reporting Services installed) oh and, Access ;) D -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:03 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Making SQL Server NewID() work with a dataset in.net 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com