Mike Sue-Ping
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Rod,
I guess, as you've already said, VB developers instinctively seek out 3rd party controls. As a person coming to .NET after many years in VFP (I haven't quite given up on it yet), I guess I expected more out of the box.
I know that when I looked at some VB forms that coworkers created, I used to be shocked that they had to write code to do what a VFP textbox could do simply by setting format and input masks. Even more shocking to me was the lack of a built in numeric spinner control.
Its good to hear that the next version of VS.NET has a better set of controls. Lets hope they're as good or better than the 3rd party stuff (which is pretty good to begin with).
Mike
>To understand what MSFT was/is thinking you need to take a look at history.
>
>VB developers were accustomed to purchasing 3rd party controls. This is still the case. There are a number of useful controls that I use out of the box. For some grids especially I buy them. I did in VB6 I do now.
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>Not to play MSFT marketing. But the next version does have a better set of
>controls.
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>Rodman
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