[AccessD] Class Rebuttal was: Basic Unbound Form ...

...can I have the books instead? ...pretty please! :)

William

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From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Class Rebuttal was: Basic Unbound Form ...


> Gosh, Drew, I'm going to run right out and burn all my .Net books and
> quit my job. ;o> And I seem to recall that the VB6 runtime was more like
> 13 megs if parts of it weren't already on the machine?
>
>
> Charlotte
>
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>
> On a lighter topic.... .Net.  You know, I've played around with it, and
> quite frankly, I don't like it.
>
> Not the language, I like inheritance, in fact, if they could have just
> given VB inheritance, it would blow .Net out of the water.
>
> What really bugs me is the .Net framework required to implement a
> project.
> VB had it's runtimes....ok, so you couldn't create a drop in place .exe,
> like you can in C++ (or Power Basic), but you're talking about 1.5 megs
> worth of a runtime, not 40 megs.  That is just too much of a pain with
> what I do.  Doesn't make up for the extra capabilities of .Net.
>
> Just my humble opinion.
>
> Drew
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