Cecil,

I haven't really had much time to play around with VS 2005 (I know, I'm bad ... no excuse), but from what I understand, what's "better" about ADO.NET in VS 2005 is that are more wizards to make things easier to set up and to basically hide what is under-the-hood (which is basically the same stuff that was in 2003). I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my take on it. Again, not having played with it at all, I could be off the mark on this a bit. Personally, I'm not a big fan of wizards at all. I'd rather code it myself. <g>

~~Bonnie




>Bonnie,
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>I think that is a great idea to sub-class all of the controls right away.
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>Is C# much different in how it handles data now? Our teacher said that the way that some books were written for 2003 .NZET is really now quite different in the .NET 2005 version? Is this true? I heard that the VFP team had some influence on the direction of data handling for this new version (2005) and that it is made easier than the way it was before. Has anyone done a white paper on this forum to show the new features in 2005 .NET?
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>Cecil
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>>Coming from a VFP background, let me give you one good tip in getting started with C# ... just like you (hopefully) did in VFP, sub-class all your controls right off the bat and work with the sub-classed controls instead of the native base classes (you know, like the TextBox, ComboBox, etc.).