John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Forms & Form designer
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Windows 2000 Server
>>>>>Hi. I am interested in designing a delivery system in VFP7. The system would be small - 4 trucks and 6 deliveries per truck/day (furniture).. What i the feasabilty of a system with each truck being represented on the form and drag and drop (deliveries) among the trucks?
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>>>>>Thanks. Randy
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>>>>First of all - Why VFP7? Why not at least VFP 9 so you are not working on something too obsolete?
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>>>Second of all - Why VFP9? Why not .net so you are not working on something too obsolete... :)
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>>If your Uncle & Antie or some other fellow you know asks you for simillar app, you should by all means
>>suggest or even better undertake yourself and pursue full size NET application with MSSQL at the back.
>>Web based of course with latest WPF based drag & drop mirracles. (Just like 'Fabricam' {g})
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>>Never mind that it is 'slight bit' more expensive to write, and inquires some 'minor' maintnance costs, but at least
>>it is not written in some obsolete technology! ;)
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>>Unlike everything else in NET, - Money is NOT an object! {g}
>>Therefore no trucker should settle for less! Tight budgets are just petty excuses for cheap bastards staying
>>away from latest tech! {vbg}
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>>Cheers :)
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>Again you show your ignorance on the topic.... c# express is FREE, sql Server 2008 Express is FREE.... the only thing would be a couple of hours to put together a couple of screens to handle the requirements.
A couple of hours? Is that the .NET learning curve in your opinion? Even if we're only talking about a form, it's still new controls, including figuring out how to do drag and drop between them, a new data access method, etc.
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