Re: What is .net

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From: Cindy Winegarden (cindy.winegarden_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:40:58 -0400

In news: 9rKHc.62$JW6.39265@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net,
Midnight Java Junkie <jolly@joy.com> wrote:

Hi Jolly Roger,

> Our organization
> has a subscription with Microsoft that basically entitled to us to
> just about every .Net development tool you can imagine. I cant even
> begin to mention them.

It sounds like what you have is an MSDN Universal Subscription. Assuming you
don't have some sort of site license, the subscription is licensed to one
person for development and testing only. That means you can set up a test
network, installing Windows with the licenses from the MSDN disks and you
can use Visual Studio to write programs that your organization can use.

> So I have to do two things: First, I need to know what I can do with
> all of these .NET packages.

What I've done is look around at what the people in my organization do. I
look for repetitive tasks that could be done by a computer program. I look
at the needs they have to have information available at their fingertips and
write apps to collect/enter the data and get it back out in various ways
(queries and reports) that fit their needs.

One program I've written creates an Excel workbook for each of our 20
divisions and populates it with one work*** for each person in that
division. There are also summary pages that total up the salaries in that
workbook. My program creates the formulas by putting together the
appropriate formula strings and then entering them in the appropriate cells.
These workbooks go out to our Divisions where we collect the anticipated
salary data for the next budget year. When they come back I have a program
that reads all the salary data back out and stores it in a table where we do
other things with it.

> So basically, if you have a nice little Active Directory network,
> with all of the AD bells and whistles and deployment abilities,
> policies, etc., what can I bring to the table with the .Net
> development tools I have before me?

One thing you can do with your MSDN license is to set up a test system where
you can make sure any new service packs don't play well with the software
your group uses. 

-- 
Cindy Winegarden  MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy.winegarden@mvps.org  www.cindywinegarden.com
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