Hi all,
Sorry I haven't been around much lately. The VFP work I have had hasn't required me to think too hard or resort to this forum. And the other work has kept me busy enough to not have time to hang out here much. As with some of you, I have had to resort to using other languages now that MS has officially announced the demise of VFP. I am using VS.NET and find that many of the sites are either too basic or too advanced. What sites do you recommend as places to get answers when VS doesn't do what I want it to do and I can't figure out what command/object I need to resolve the problem. 2 examples: 1) I wanted to get the ascii value of a character. There is no (obvious) method to do so. I found a number of objects that apparently convert arrays or strings to arrays of binary values (which I could have used, but it was a kludge). I finally settled on the old VB 5/VFP command, but I really wanted to avoid using what should be legacy code. 2) I have to write an application to talk to an Oracle server. I can do so in VFP using ODBC. VS wants me to use OLE DB - what do I do differently to make that work. And what's the best approach to getting remote data (ADO, LINQ, etc.) and passing it between objects (XML, ADO, etc.)? I am not really expecting an answer here. I would rather find some good resource (say something similar to this list.) Ideally, it would be a list that had a number of VFP developers who understand that I know programming, just not the specifics of VS.NET. I tried the archives, but didn't find a message that listed such resources. Thanks, Fletcher Fletcher Johnson <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 408-781-2345 - Cell 408-946-0960 - Work 501-421-9629 - Fax --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] 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/00cd01c9a1ba$1d374440$57a5cc...@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.
