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Equivalent for VFP's Evaluate Command
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29/05/2009 15:36:27
Calvin Smith
Wayne Reaves Computer Systems
Macon, Georgia, United States
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>I am sure this has come up many times before, but let me ask it once again anyway. We are rewriting a VFP 9 app into VB8. One of the mains tasks of the app is printing a large number of legal documents. In VFP we stored the expressions etc to be printing in a database and at print time just called the Evaluate function on the contents of the memo field. I realize this approach does not work in VB, but I did not realize that there does not appear to be anything in VB to replace it. We thought we had a solution using JavaScript but that is being deprecated and we could not get it to work with Vista so it has been abandoned. Then we thought we had a solution using embedded expressions with Linq and XML , but that didn't work either (MS says that it will dynamically evaluate whatever is embedded in the xml but it doesn't)
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>We are faced with having to write all these expressions etc into module files and calling them at print time. This will mean that whenever we change a document we will also have to change the code ... ugh.
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>Can anyone point me in a better direction? Thanks for any and all help.

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