> > Oh heck yes, I am completely addicted to Visual Assist. Until Eclipse > or whatever gets something equivalent in functionality, it will > *never* be useful to me. And I know many others like me who think the > same way.
I have found that Visual Assist can't deal with the heavy duty template stuff found in WTL applications. Or is that a figment of my imagination? > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Bhushan Inamdar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Coming to .NET ADOs and stuff, you are right. I did not know that we > can > >> work with ODBC in similar fashion as ADO.NET or can we? Can we have > a > >> disconnected architecture and caching capabilities? How performant > is that > >> using ODBC? > > You would need to build some of those functionalities on top of ODBC, > but in general, ODBC is *slow*. It was not designed to be fast, and > it has a limited feature set as it is designed to work with all > databases (but none of them 'well'), that is why ADO.Net added so many > features because it is trying to work around the slowdowns caused be > ODBC. I would stay away from it. I had to work with it for a few > years about a decade ago, it was horrible, and it has not changed... > Wait until Wt::DBO comes out and adds more back-ends. :) In a possible upcoming project, I'll need to access data in an MS SQL database. Is there a recommendation on a C++ driver that gets close (ie is fast) with regards to query and stored procedure access against the database? > > > > XML: <my-tag attr=42>Hi!</my-tag> > Sexp: (my-tag (attr 42) Hi!) > But isn't the '</my-tag>' in xml the equivalent of the ')' in sexp, so you still have a tail tag, no matter what you call it or what it does. Xml is just a bit wordier, and in a fashion, it is self-error-checking. If one drops a ')', processing sync may be lost, but with an un-end-tag, you can get an idea of what was lost. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
