Forget how languages work, it is how the database is handled that is important for business coders today. Second it is how the screen is handled.
The way database tables are handled is REALLY cool in visual studio. eg two tables: Customer (n -> 1) customer_type Customer_row embeds a reference to the record for customer_type_row. You don't have to go find it. Customer (1 -> n) orders (1->n) order_rows You construct a chain of binding sources and it all tracks automatically.* If you change customer, it changes the orders list which automatically selects a new order so the order rows update as well. Magic. It is all done with Objects but the GUI builds a huge proportion of the code. 64,351 generated lines of code out of a total of 66K lines for application. 59,000 is database access ** Ken * Took me a while to figure it out, documentation assumes too much knowledge, three books each giving part of the picture and I have it working! ** Very complicated database schema! _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
