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Originally Posted by kfarmer
Have you checked out VB9 (VB 2008, whatever they're calling the new release -- you know how MS Marketing can be with name changes...). There's some stuff there that should make your data access much more pleasant (I know, I wrote some of it).
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Not yet, as I hinted, the "Powers That Be" haven't told us
where we're going from Notes (we've been waiting
four years for them to pull that particular finger out of their noses), so I haven't played much with any alternatives, I've just been "shutin' up and colorin'" with the crayons I have. It's kind of a sore point, as you might guess.
The thing that most worries me about leaving Notes is that Notes is
very good at handling data access
for me, and I know I'm going to have a lot to learn in that area no matter what we go to. Privately I figure we're going to end up with VBasic front and Oracle back (we've got another app in Oracle already that we want to interface with), and I'll of course buck for the newest version of VStudio I can get my little grubbies on (in the interest of doing the best work possible, of course!
), so I'm pleased to hear there are particularly good tools in that area. I think an ADO.Net class is going to be my next "career education" event. I can generally get VBscript to do what I want it to do, LotusScript is pretty similar, after all, but I'm still fairly perplexed on the data handling end, and there's only so much one can accomplish without actually handling data.
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Originally Posted by kfarmer
As I mentioned, I've not trusted one anywhere in ages. Especially if they're used in installers/uninstallers...  |
Those are my "primary offenders" too.
