[AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?

Hi Charlotte

Yes, that sounds like a learning experience.

/gustav

>>> kp at sdsonline.net 30-04-2007 04:31 >>>
Charlotte - any chance of stepping us dot net newbies thru an example of what you mean? 

Kath
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charlotte Foust 
  To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 
  Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:18 AM
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dot Net, where to start?


  The chapters on ADO.Net give a good overview of datasets, data providers
  and the actual relational objects (tables, views, etc.), and it also
  compares ADO.Net and ADO as well.  But I haven't seen any books
  describing the data tier structures in the way we built them.  Most of
  the books start with directly binding a form to a data adapter, and we
  work the other way around.  We build data "entities" that implement
  typed datasets and expose the behaviors and methods we need.  We can
  then drop one of those entities on a form or report to provide the data
  connections we need.  The working code is actually in a dataprovider
  class with the entity containing calls to the dataprovider and even to
  other entities if need be.

  Our model has evolved as we developed the apps and figured out what
  worked, and we have "refactored" (a much overused work in our shop) the
  bits and pieces many times over the course of the past two years.  

  Charlotte Foust