Robert L. Stewart
rl_stewart at highstream.net
Fri Apr 27 13:11:32 CDT 2007
All, There are excellent video tutorials available on the Microsoft site that you can download and go through at your own pace. Also, I would highly recommend getting a tool like Codesmith and using the .netTier template for it. This will essentially give you a database layer essentially the same as Access, but customized to your SQL Server database. I cannot vouch for how it works with anything else as a backend, because that is all I use any more. If you don't want to put out the $299 or $99 for Codesmith (.netTier is free), check out the Enterprise Library (also free) from Microsoft. It will give you an Access like object library that is much easier to program against. Codesmith is based on top of this. John, based on how you like to design with classes, you will also want to check out the Model-View- Presenter design pattern. Robert