[AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS

Ha ha ha... I agree John but we are in a minority. ;-)

Jim



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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:44 PM
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English IS better!

;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Jim Lawrence wrote:
> I full-heartedly agree with you. The basic creation of the .Net
> infrastructure was to allow the designer to write code in any way they
want.
> 
> 
> There are dozens of CLI languages that can be used and if you are
extending
> you applications to the web the count increases dramatically. You can mix
> and match within a single app...Any mashup that can get an application
> running 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
> 
> The argument that one language runs faster than another is simply not
true;
> any longer. My thought is use what ever language feels good to you or has
> the most 'field tested' code and has the features you need.
> 
> Single language apps are the old way of thinking. Show me what an
> application can do and frankly I could not care less what it was written
in.
> 
> 
> It is similar to saying English is better.
> 
> Jim
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:30 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS
> 
> Well, gentlemen,  I stand by VB.Net since I absolutely hate the C# syntax
> and "punctuation".  I can read it, but I don't want to write it.  Of
course,
> since I'm old enough not to have to expect to keep doing this, I can
indulge
> myself by NOT learning C#.  I do rather object to the avalanche towards it
> in the VB list, though.  Seems like the fact that the language isn't the
> important thing gets forgotten.
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:28 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Treeview/Listview OCX Disabled by MS
> 
> I second pretty much everything William said, EXCEPT that I did not find
C#
> syntax all that trivial 
> to pick up.  But like William I forced myself to do it and I am happy I
did.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> William Hindman wrote:
>> ...vb.net and c#.net are virtually identical in their capabilities
...only
> 
>> the syntax is significantly different in the latest versions and you'll
> pick 
>> that up fairly quickly ...learning the net framework is the major effort,

>> not the language you choose to work in ...I started in vb.net because the

>> syntax seemed more familiar but that's really an illusion since it's very

>> different from vba in reality ...I've since moved to forcing myself to
> work 
>> in c#.net because 1) that's where the work is and 2) that's what ~70% or 
>> more of the on-line responses and sample code are written in ...and I
live
> 
>> on sample code ...besides which, there are some very good (and free)
> on-line 
>> translators between the two now ...if I were starting over in net I'd
pass
> 
>> on vb.net and go straight to c#.net
>>
> 
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