New VFP like features in VS.NET 2005
Last night I attended OC C# meeting to see Kevin McNeish of Oakleaf Enterprise where he spoke about ADO.NET 2.0. But he also introduced some very kewl features in VS.NET 2005... Well, I should say very cool for .NET because I've been used to seeing these features in Visual FoxPro.
So what kind of features am I talking about???
The first feature is the ability to view data the way data is meant to be seen. Being a long time database developer using 4GL Languages like dBase, FoxBase, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, as well as SQL Server I'm used to seeing data in a grid. Call it what you will. Call it a browse window, data display view or whatever - it pretty much turns out to be a grid. When I first started using .NET it was pain-staking to have to view a DataSet in the debugger. VS.NET 2005 allows you to view the data in a grid format.
The second feature, which I was terribly tickled to learn about, is the ability to instantiate an object in the Immediate Window. Now for us Foxheads this is something that has been around back from the days of VFP 3.0 (1995) and stemming back to the command dot in dBase prior to OOP arriving in xBase Languages. And for those that never had the pleasure of programming in VFP you'll have to learn something completely new. This will set unit testing to a whole new level.
Oh ya, and ADO.NET 2.0 is pretty cool, too!
So what kind of features am I talking about???
The first feature is the ability to view data the way data is meant to be seen. Being a long time database developer using 4GL Languages like dBase, FoxBase, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, as well as SQL Server I'm used to seeing data in a grid. Call it what you will. Call it a browse window, data display view or whatever - it pretty much turns out to be a grid. When I first started using .NET it was pain-staking to have to view a DataSet in the debugger. VS.NET 2005 allows you to view the data in a grid format.
The second feature, which I was terribly tickled to learn about, is the ability to instantiate an object in the Immediate Window. Now for us Foxheads this is something that has been around back from the days of VFP 3.0 (1995) and stemming back to the command dot in dBase prior to OOP arriving in xBase Languages. And for those that never had the pleasure of programming in VFP you'll have to learn something completely new. This will set unit testing to a whole new level.
Oh ya, and ADO.NET 2.0 is pretty cool, too!
posted by Victor Campos | 5:58 AM
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