[AccessD] FW: Access 2007 (and other rants)

John,

Yes, that's less stressful way for VB6/VBA -> ... -> C# transition you chose
- a kind of wise men approach I'd admit :) ...

BTW, you can program in VB.NET using DAO or plain ADO while adapting to .NET
Framework - the fact is that e.g. in ASP.NET and WinForms applications (at
least the ones I'm developing and the ones I have seen others developed)
probably only five or less percents of ADO.NET features are used - ADO.NET
seems to be a kind of "dead technology" (looking from here) - I mean "dead
technology" to use in custom development because as I noted above it
(ADO.NET) is almost not used in custom development (here) - of course
ADO.NET is broadly used in many .NET Framework technologies "under the
hood"...

Just my opinion/experience...

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Shamil

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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:37 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] FW: Access 2007 (and other rants)

Shamil,

I haven't made the switch to c# yet but I plan to.

My idea was to not battle two fronts at once, the IDE / class library of 
.Net as well as the syntax differences between vb.net and c#.net.  I am 
finally getting comfortable with the IDE and slowly getting up to speed 
on the class library.  Once I can code in VB.Net as quickly and easily 
as I do in VBA, then I will look at switching to C# and get over the 
syntax hump.

I too used C in past years (in the 90s) and eventually grew comfortable 
with it but it has been long enough that it will be like starting over 
with the syntax.

Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Let me tell briefly about my experience with my transition from VB6/VBA ->
> VB.NET -> C#: when one comes from VB6/VBA to .NET then they feel rather
> comfortable with VB.NET from the very beginning, and usually not so
> comfortable (sometimes quite stressful) with C# - at least that was in my
> case despite the fact that in the past (before VB6/VBA programming for
> almost ten years) I did program quite a few on C and C++...
> 
> But be strong and find time to get feeling easy when programming in C#,
and
> you'll be rewarded manifold, I mean that :)
> 
> --
> Shamil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hewson, Jim 
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 5:18 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] FW: Access 2007 (and other rants)
> 
> William,
> Why did you move to C# instead of staying with VB?
> I've attempted to "read" C# code and it really doesn't make sense to me.
> It could be that I'm not accustomed to it.
> 
> Jim 

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