On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Geoff Flight <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys...
>
> I wonder if there is anyone out there who could give me a little advice on
> VB.NET. I've been trying to make the transition from VFP to .NET and
> discovered exactly how good VFP is. In my first attempt at a VB.NET project
> I'm coming unstuck at every step of the way and finding difficulties and
> roadblocks that are not only frustrating me but make me wonder just how VB
> can be so obtuse. For example...
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heads up on reality. VFP is VFP, VB.NET != VFP
Stop trying to do it the same way. let me repeat that "Stop writing
code in other languages like VFP."
>
> I am trying to databind an integer SQL database column to a radio button. IN
> VFP it is simplicity itself. I cant find out how to do it in VB at all! I
> could code up a user control that does what I want but as a newbie I kinda
> expected to be able to drop a radio button on the form and bind it to a
> column and voila... however, I can find no way of doing it.
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If your using dataset/dataTable
rbtPull.Checked=ds3.Tables(0).Rows(0)("Log.IsPull")
> I like to write apps where the bound text boxes, combos and radio buttons
> display the data but are disabled or marked as read-only until i press my
> edit button. Pretty basic stuff. In VB making enabled=false turns the text
> that horrible pale unreadable grey color. However that color cannot be
> overridden. So off to using read-only, only to find that combo boxes don't
> have that property. It never ends...
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Are you binding your data against objects or tables in datasets? Go
the Object route!!!! Drop the whole idea of that dumb cursor concept.
It is so 1900s.
> If anyone can give me any advice on the above and the inevitable further
> problems I will face I will appreciated it. I googled these issues and all I
> found were other people with the same problem.
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Winform or web? For Web you just need to put in CSS. I don't realy
care about the winform side of the equation.
> I am learning VB on a dinky little app that I wrote in VFP in 1 day. I'm on
> day two of this VB rewrite and I have completed as much as I would have done
> in 5mins in VFP.
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Try Python. You should be as capable in oh 3 days as all of your
years of VFP experience.
Sorry to be an ass but in all honesty you are asking for a lot. I
found that it took me about 1 solid month to not think in VFP syntax
when I changed over to .NET. Why did you think it was just easy and
no problem? Are you hitting the Nog again. :)
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Stephen Russell
Sr. Production Systems Programmer
Mimeo.com
Memphis TN
901.246-0159
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