If I had a pair of dimes for all the paradigms I've missed.....
sorry - couldn't resist
>>Learn EF.
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>OK.... I'll put it on my learning list.
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>I am moving (nolens volens) to the new MS paradigms. Slowly. The advantage of doing this slowly is that there are a few paradigms that I missed :)
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>Thanks.
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>>>I will ... but have not had the opportunity yet; My backend is an access db, and I'm perfectly happy generating my sqls in VB string variables passed ado.net.
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>>EF supports a lot of back ends so I though Access was an option but after googling a bit I find what you probably did that EF and Access don't play well together.
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>>( boy, I'd sure be tempted to consider if SQL Express would handle what access is doing )
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