[AccessD] Classes and Events - Stay with us

 > Like you, I learned from Shamil.  I can remember reading his DEEP article and falling madly in 
love!  LOL

Charlotte,

To give hope to those reading this thread, I remember reading Shamil's DEEP articles and going "WTF 
over?".  It took me three times, over two years before I finally "got it".

I am hopeful that by breaking this stuff down into bite size pieces with enough explanation and a 
place to discuss it, our list members can learn it quickly and easily.

This stuff is NOT tough, but it IS different!  I am convinced though that it can be learned in just 
a few hours, with enough encouragement and sufficient detail.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Charlotte Foust wrote:
> I can definitely speak to that, John.  Every bit of ADO programming and
> all my work with classes helped reduce the steep learning curve for
> .Net.  In .Net, it is definitely NOT DONE to copy and paste code here,
> there and everywhere.  Instead you create helper classes to contain the
> code and then call into those helper classes when you need to do the
> same thing time and again.  We create our own control objects, which are
> kind of like mini subforms for those who haven't yet made the .Net leap,
> and give them their own methods and properties and appearance that fit
> our usage and the look of our apps.  We have ONE combobox control.  It
> gets populated through a helper class, it has a streamlined interface,
> and it looks and behaves consistently across the application.  If we
> need to change its behavior, we need do it only in one place, not in
> every one of the hundreds of forms, subforms and user controls we have
> in our applications.
> 
> Like you, I learned from Shamil.  I can remember reading his DEEP
> article and falling madly in love!  LOL
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:53 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Classes and Events - Stay with us
> 
> Thanks for the encouragement to me and to "the class".  It is very
> important to those who haven't been exposed to classes and events to
> hear from those who use them how useful this stuff is. 
> Without that input from other developers it can just be "yea, yea, JC's
> goin on about classes again".
> 
> I encourage any list members who use Classes and Events in Classes to
> speak up and tell your own experiences using this stuff.  You might also
> discuss how it helped when it came time to learn .Net.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Gustav Brock wrote:
>> Hi John
>>
>> You could have been a teacher. Thanks for allocation some of your time
> for this series.
>> If some of you are still in doubt if this stuff is useful, think
> twice. Years ago Shamil showed me how and I agree, it is like moving to
> the next volume in the series on how to program in VBA.
>> By the way, an article or so from you on the subject once was at
> http://www.databaseadvisors.com but now I can't locate it.
>> Could be relevant to post a link if it is still there.
>>
>> /gustav
>>
>>
>>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 10-02-2009 04:43 >>>
>> I would urge all who are interested to stay with us on this.  I have 
>> intentionally kept the individual emails small so that specific
> concepts could be learned and absorbed before moving on.
>> This means that the number of emails will be larger however, which
> might appear daunting.
>> If you have questions about any individual part, please speak up.
>>
>> Programming is fun, and classes and events are a very powerful tool.  
>> Anyone who can program events behind a form can program those same
> events in classes.
>> Each email should take you perhaps 1/2 hour to one hour to complete.  
>> In just a few hours you too can learn things that will take your 
>> skills to a new level.  Believe me, once you understand and can apply 
>> these ideas your applications will never be the same.  You will bring
> a whole new level of skill and ability to your career.
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