kz2zx
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posted May 23, 2004 03:02 PM
Ping Beansbaxter
Beans, bud -
I got really busy at work and could not finish the port of my prog over to .NET. It works OK in VB6, and I have a boatload of values to put into the .mdb (research)...
Did you make any progress w/it? If not, I'll start again with the .NET port next week.
  
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beansbaxter
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posted May 23, 2004 03:11 PM
 Edited By: beansbaxter on 23 May 2004 16:12
Dave:
I have not taken the time to bring it over to .NET, another thing that needs to be done.
I perused over everything and started to make changes with the mdb access but was having issues there so I just left it be....
I can prolly spend a fair amount of time working on it the latter part of this week. Sorry it's taken me so long to work on it....my plate is too full as it is and I always ask for more, not complaining though for sure...I love this stuff.
I'll keep ya posted.
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posted May 23, 2004 09:16 PM
Edited By: frEEk on 23 May 2004 22:16
EVIL M$ PROGRAMMERS!!! 
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posted May 24, 2004 10:47 AM
guys, u jsut tryin to port a spreadsheet over to a real language? i have a script that ports excel to php. it aint 100%, but it's worked for some pretty complex sheets. if u havent got anywhere on it yet i'll try running it thru there & see how it works.
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beansbaxter
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posted May 24, 2004 10:56 AM
he actually redid the code in VB and sent me that...I originally was going to take the code out of the VBA used in his Excel sheet and port it over, but then he told me he was working on a new version, all done in VB, but the cool thing is the ODBC controller that will link it to a database, so you can just update the mdb file with the data....exactly what i was going to do, but he beat me to the punch on that one...
the prob now is the new version was done in vb6 and i want to do it in vb.net because i can port it to a palm pda version, which i would think would be handy...
dude freek, i need to learn PHP so insanely bad its not even funny, i know psuedocode is the same across the board, but i havent even begun to learn the syntax and mess with it...one of these days, one of these days, the story of my life...haha
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dnwhoop02
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posted May 24, 2004 10:56 AM
when you say .NET, do you mean VB .NET, or does .NET just refer to anything .NET (asp .NET, etc....). I stopped keeping up with MS programming around C#
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frEEk
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posted May 24, 2004 11:10 AM
beans, php is dead easy. if i remember vb correctly, it's kinda like vb cept more of a functional style rather than an oo style. not to say u cant do OO in php, it's actually quite well supported, but the coding style itself doesnt use javascript like code. anyway, it's dead easy. just run thru an online tutorial or 2 and u'll have it down pat. oh, if ur gonna do DB interaction, i'd suggest trying the PEAR DB abstraction layer. perl's native DB handling (at least mysql) is rather annoying at times, or maybe i should say limiting. plus pear even seems to be faster at times as it allows prepare and multiple execution.
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posted May 24, 2004 04:35 PM
Edited By: kz2zx on 24 May 2004 21:35
Freek, et al -
I'm a C++/UML type of guy, and I manage embedded development and application-level test platform development.
I started in VB6 on this little project because it's what I had on hand on my managerial-grade work laptop, and when I started porting it off the spreadsheet, I was in a hotel room for a week with no HBO...
Anyway, I got busy at work again, and have not had time to figure out how to avoid 'falling out the bottom' of the app when I ported it to .NET's version of VB. (Minor rant here - VB was supposed to be a weakly-typed language that you could do OO and Windows controls/forms in quickly. .NET turned it into extremely verbose C++, with a whole framework to learn before you can either port old code or develop new...)
So I dumped it in Dan's lap for a little while. I won't be traveling at work again for a little while, so the amount of time I can devote is small.
For dnwhoop - .NET comes in three flavors - Verbose (VB), JavaBose (C#), and Original Strength (C++). All three are pretty similar, and all three are consistent as all get out, which is a major milestone for Windows.
Now, if we could just make the UML in Visio truly executable, I might be impressed...
Anyway, Freek, I dunno if the .php converter will like my embedded VBA (it's not even VBScript).
One thing I was wondering about - would you let me make ODBC connections to a server on your website (serve a DB)? This way we can keep everyone's .mdb (say, if they were docking a handheld) up to speed.
Y'all let me know what we're doing...
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posted May 24, 2004 10:38 PM
re converter, not sure about the VBA. it does support some excel functions, but mostly stuff like math functions and a coupel flow control statements, that's it. so i'm guessing no.
as to odbc, while a nice idea, the server is locked down pretty tight so i rather doubt the sysadmin would go for that. however i got no problem with putting up a page somewhere with all the data u need, something we can add to as time goes by. then u could just point the users to that page from the spreadsheet. if u'r looking to make this a downloadable executable tho, i cant imagine the DB would be all that big, so i'd just embed it i think.
and i still say y'all MS-using people are evil 
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