[AccessD] Convert Access App to VB.Net (was FYI: Goodnews-VBAin Office 12 and beyond...)

Boogie Loogie boogieloogie at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 18:09:06 CST 2006


I don't know yet. Frankly I am sticking with VS 2003 and Pocket PC 2003 /Win
Ce 4 and lower until I see some movement on the support end of things

BL

On 2/22/06, Steve Conklin <developer at ultradnt.com> wrote:
>
> So they are forcing you to go with SQL CE?  Are there any other options
> for
> Db's on PPC's?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Boogie Loogie
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:19 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Convert Access App to VB.Net (was FYI:
> Goodnews-VBAin
> Office 12 and beyond...)
>
> I program for the compact framework of VB.Net. With CF2.0 and VS 2005 now
> out the glorious braintrust at Micro$oft has did not include support for
> .cdb files (.mdb's little cousin) for Windows Mobile 5.0 . Even if you
> attempt to use tools such has the InTheHand adoce there is no ActiveSync
> support for the database conversion.
>
> They say they will come up with a patch but it will not be supported and
> that future versions of the Mobile OS may never offer any support again.
>
> In professional terms...THIS SUCKS UP THE WAZOO!
>
> On 2/22/06, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Charlotte,
> >
> > As far as the "power suite" I was just relaying what I found on the
> > AppDev site.  Since I'm my own employer I was trying to determine
> > which ".NET training series" you have.  AppDev has 17 different .NET
> > "courses" ranging from 2 CD's worth up to 16 CD's.  The .NET Power
> > Suites have 73 CD's for the VB.NET suite and 40 CD's for the C# suite.
> > There's also a .NET Web Development suite with 56 CD's.  MCAD and MCSD
> > certification suites are available, too.
> >
> > The Dobson book I found just struck me as funny since the ONLY copy
> > available on Amazon had that outrageous price.  Maybe it's really,
> > really good!
> >
> > Thanks, Charlotte.
> >
> > Steve Erbach
> > Neenah, WI
> > http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com
> >
> > On 2/22/06, Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote:
> > > No, I'm not talking about any "power suites", and I didn't pay that
> > > much for the Dobson books.  Yes Barker is the author of the other
> book.
> > >
> > > Charlotte
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve
> > > Erbach
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:37 PM
> > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Convert Access App to VB.Net (was FYI: Good
> > > news-VBAin Office 12 and beyond...)
> > >
> > >
> > > Charlotte,
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > I have the Murach series of .NET books, two O'Reilly books on
> > > ASP.NET (the Cookbook and Programming With), three early Microsoft
> > > books on .NET, and a Wrox book on Crystal Reports.  My Safari
> > > subscription has been very useful along those lines, too.  On my
> > > bookshelf I've got the O'Reilly ADO.NET Cookbook, the Programming
> > > ASP.NET 3rd edition, and the Programming C# 4th edition.
> > >
> > > Are you talking about the .NET Power Suite for Visual Basic .NET or
> > > Visual C# .NET?  I see that those are currently $2517 and $1437
> > > without books.  Hoo boy!  I'll bet they were pretty thorough!
> > >
> > > I see a used copy of Rick Dobson's "Programming Microsoft SQL Server
> > > 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" available on Amazon for
> $135.99!!
> > >
> > > Otherwise he has a lot of Access-based books.  Don't see any others
> > > on .NET really except for one on SQL Server 2005 Express.
> > >
> > > F. Scott Barker appears to be the author of that 2002 book on
> > > ADO.NET and VB.NET.
> > >
> > > Thanks again.
> > >
> > > Steve Erbach
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