On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Fletcher Johnson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> As with some of you, I have had to resort to using other languages now that
> MS has officially announced the demise of VFP.
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> 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.
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> 2 examples:
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> 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.
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int = Convert.ToInt16('A');
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> 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.)?
there are oracle drivers that are better then the M$ ones. Same goes with DB2.
Linq to SQL is just for SQL Server for now? I amy have missed that
Oracle works now as well after SP1.
> 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.
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The UT has fox programmers who do .NET.
There are plenty of other great "non" list based assets as well. Oh
and they are not really populated with fox folk because well ther are
really not that many world wide.
Google is your friend. :)
A lot depends on your language of choice as well.
C# Corner. Egghead Cafe, .NetSpider, CSharphelp, and the list goes on.
So I would no go through a dataset to pass data around.
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Stephen Russell
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