Steven W. Erbach
serbach at new.rr.com
Wed Nov 17 11:06:27 CST 2004
Dear Group, For what it's worth, I've come up with a suitable metaphor to describe the difference between writing an application in Microsoft Access and writing that same application using .NET technologies. Microsoft Access is like living in a luxury hotel with hot and cold running chamber maids, laundry service, shoe shining service, room service, beds made every day, carpet vacuumed every day, fresh flowers every day, fresh linen, those nifty little soaps and bottles of shampoo, Magic Fingers massage bed, chocolates on the pillow, and your favorite newspaper unfolded to the financial page for you. .NET is like clearing a wooded hillside to build a vacation cottage. But first you have to learn how to operate a bulldozer to clear the woods. Then you have to figure out for yourself the most efficient use of block and tackle to haul the trees out of the way. Oh, did I mention that you have to build a road to the site first? Then you need to stack the logs onto a truck and drive it yourself to the sawmill so that you can saw the logs into boards to use to build your house. You might want to learn how to smelt metal so that you can make your own nails and hammer and such... It ain't quite that bad but I've never had to buy so many reference books and have them open at the same time. Anybody else with a less florid description of .NET development? Steve Erbach Neenah, WI