Hi Thomas,

Thanks a lot. A couple follow up questions:

- has VB continued to be updated over the years such that it is a "current" language or is it lacking some features (I don't know what, just asking)
- what did the framework do for you - did it ease figuring out overall how VB worked? I know using the framework that I used with VFP it helped way back when I was transitioning from FP to VFP. But it also took a long time to understand all that the framework was doing.

I have used the VB code a bit in VBA inside of Word and Excel to automate some things for users with macros. It always seems "clunky" and inefficient but I realize that the VBA code might be miles behind where VB.net is.

Albert

>About six years ago I had a similar task to fulfil. I had written a software suite for a customer who
>distributes software to his customers, which are bookshops (Yes, they still exist today and some are
>doing very well). The software included erp/crm/pos and all kinds of internet-communication.
>They wanted a more stable database than native vfp and more unspecific "something newer".
>Together with the customer I decided to use VS/vb.net with the SQL-express-db because it looked
>like I could do everything I needed with it, I could use the express-version of MS-SQL without royalties and
>I choose vb.net because I had some experience with vb5/6. Finally I found a fine framework called
>strataframe which made the conversion a bit easier. But the main reason I did not use all the tools mentioned
>in a lot of discussions here was that I wanted some tool which is used by a lot of people and where are
>enough sources where I can get help.
>Looking back it was a good decision, the only problem was/is that the framework isn't really up to date anymore.
>
>Best regards
>
>Thomas