Thanks, It was one of the best Christmases. Keep plugging, you'll get it.
John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Flight Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:35 PM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: Visual Studio vs VFP Ive been thru a heap of hers and they are good BUT... these videos seem to carefully avoid the very questions I have eg disabled controls and radio button lists. Actually what I really want to see is a small (but complete) professional database app with all the features a real app would have so that I can investigate the code etc. One thing is certain tho. I've developed a greater appreciation for VFP than I had before. VFP is obvious but .NET seems to be so obtuse. Beth Massi's videos are actually very good. She does good work and Ive learned a lot. I feel so immensely frustrated to be stymied on basics such as using controls. The harder stuff (table adaptors and multiple queries) is ok. It is the simple stuff I'm having trouble with!!!! Thanks for the advice. Hope Christmas was a good one! -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Sent: Saturday, 27 December 2008 2:26 PM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: Visual Studio vs VFP Go to MS website and search for "free video vb.net training Beth Massi" She has done a bunch that will walk you through the steps. John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Flight Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 7:32 PM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: Visual Studio vs VFP 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... 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. 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... 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. 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. HELP!!!! Geoff [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/00c101c967e6$cdb54dc0$691fe9...@harvey@shelbynet.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
