Re: Recommended Programming Language

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From: Kevin Spencer (kevin_at_takempis.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:57:48 -0500

Hi Mike,

Here's where I got the idea from:

> > > primarily to aid in webpage authorship (i.e., to rearrange multiple
> > > files, and to automate content updates to many files at once).

Sounds like he wants to work with the FrontPage OM. As he didn't specify a
version, .Net is not necessarily a choice. Of course, if he's working with
the latest version, .Net would certainly be MY choice! 

-- 
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
"MD Websunlimited" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> I didn't read it like that and besides you can utilize FP's OM from .NET.
The new stuff that we'll be introducing this year will all
> be .Net based.
>
> -- 
> Mike -- FrontPage MVP '09 - '02
> http://www.websunlimited.com
>
>
> "Kevin Spencer" <kevin@takempis.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > It sounds like he wants to work with FrontPage's COM object model here.
> > Wouldn't VBA be the language he should be using?
> >
> > -- 
> > HTH,
> > Kevin Spencer
> > .Net Developer
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Big things are made up
> > of lots of little things.
> >
> > "MD Websunlimited" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> > news:#K#DZsx$DHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi Ray,
> > >
> > > VB 4.0 is 16 bit based and not a good choice to learn. Perl can run on
> > both Unix systems and Windows but you'll find very little
> > > sample code in Perl for Windows systems.
> > >
> > > If you need to learn a language VB.Net may be the way to go as it is
the
> > current technology but it is not trivial.
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Mike -- FrontPage MVP '09 - '02
> > > http://www.websunlimited.com
> > >
> > >
> > > "Ray Wood***" <ray-wood***@usa.net> wrote in message
> > news:fec742b6.0402290633.2f8ef0ef@posting.google.com...
> > > > I would like to have the ability to use programming with FrontPage,
> > > > primarily to aid in webpage authorship (i.e., to rearrange multiple
> > > > files, and to automate content updates to many files at once).  I do
> > > > not have a lot of spare time to learn programming.  My question is,
> > > > what programming approach makes the most sense?
> > > >
> > > > I learned BASIC long ago.  I have recently purchased a copy of
Visual
> > > > Basic 4.0, thinking I could use it at least to learn with.  I am not
> > > > certain it will run on my WinXP system, but probably it runs OK on
my
> > > > older Win98 system.
> > > >
> > > > As an alternative, I had considered just learning VBA, but I am not
> > > > sure how to go about that, or whether it is all that much simpler
than
> > > > learning Visual Basic as a whole.
> > > >
> > > > A friend is learning Perl.  He says this is a great language in his
> > > > field.  I had found Perl interesting when I took a preliminary look
at
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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