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23/03/2007 01:06:31
 
 
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23/03/2007 01:05:04
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01206802
Message ID:
01207504
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No, no. Ther have a "ControlSource" but it's not as flexible. As long as you can define your datasource in .Net you're OK. Just don't try to mung data on the fly the way we do...at least for now.

>>You don't want to know. Essentially, a big freaking for...while loop.
>
>Then I don't want to know what they use for .controlsource, either?
>
>>>>GREAT analogy with the 500 lbs, gorilla that doesn't know how to eat bananas. That's precisely right. I don't think data interaction was a high priority in the infancy of .Net. Data as a whole has generally been something you connect to tentatively and not natively to all MS products.
>>>>
>>>>There are some former VFP gurus who took to bad-mouthing the product in comparison to .Net....I only needed one comeback - "ad-hoc three table joins"
>>>
>>>You got to be kidding. How do they do that, really?
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05
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