Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Wed Jan 12 13:31:23 CST 2011
Sure is. There are several built-in objects that make life pretty easy. Personally, I see these as both a pro and con. So much of what you get to use is luggage in the .Net runtimes. So while the tools are great, and very handy, sometimes it's a little too much for something quick and dirty. In fact, I still find myself opening VB6 to whip up a quick and dirty bit of code. Maybe in a few years, I'll be saying that about .Net, compared to the next generation! ;) Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:01 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Old Dog, New Tricks Lordy, yes! Once you learn to use the stringbuilder, you're in heaven. Oddly enough, most of the developers in my old shop built strings the hard way, even though stringbuilder was right there waiting for them. I was the only one who used it consistently. Sure is nice for building SQL strings conditionally. Charlotte Foust On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote: > Have fun with .Net. Just started digging into it last year. I've only > worked on ASP.Net stuff though, haven't really created any truly VB.Net > apps. > > I've already read some of the comments on this thread. I think the .Net > leap is going to be hedged on how you used VB in the past. If you > weren't using class objects as a 'basis' for most of your code, that > will be a learning curve, in and of itself. A lot of the 'new' features > of .Net are things you could do in VB (actually VB6, there were > limitations on VBA), like multi-threading, NT Services, etc. But they > were tricky and in some cases 'unsupported'. Other new features really > simplify your programming, like the StringBuilder class. Very handy! > > Enjoy! > > Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:28 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] OT:Old Dog, New Tricks > > Hey All > Happy New Year. > Well after reading your online intriquing and interesting chats and > advice I have decided > 1. To finally get my Web Page (I designed it over 2 years ago) up and > running. It is nothing fancy but how can I be a credible programmer when > > I can't direct a client to my Web Page. > 2. Start learning VB.Net. I know some of you favour VB.C+ but I am an > old dog and I didn't want to tackle any thing too foreign. I hope to > have my first application out of here by the end of January. Just > kidding. > Let me tell you I have been struggling with VB.Net. I am pretty > proficient in getting Access to do what I want. Now I have to learn a > whole new bag of tricks. It didn't help that some of the first > tutorials I looked at kept trying to show me how to display "Hello > World" on the console. I finally found one that showed me how to link to > > an Acess MDB and design a form with navigation, add new and delete > buttons. So now I am off and running. I still get frustrated because I > know what I want to do but at this point I don't know how to do it in > VB.Net. But I keep remembering something I read years ago. It went > something like this. > Ted and Paul are having a conversation. Paul says "I would really like > to learn how to play the piano, but I hear it takes about 5 years to > really learn how to play it well, I just don't think I have the time". > Ted thinks about it for a moment and then realizes that Paul had said > the same thing to him 5 years ago. > So hopefully I can persevere and catch up to you guys. 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