Re: Does this exist?
From: Thomas H (T_at_H)
Date: 07/26/04
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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:38:38 -0400
Adam,
Actually, I find Textpad to be my runner-up; it came with a book I bought 3
years ago, and I've been using it ever since!
David, you can use, and program in, the .NET framework without buying
VS.NET- like Adam said, all you need is a text editor. You could evaluate
the .NET framework first, then buy VS.NET later. Look for the .NET SDK from
Microsoft's downloads.
-Thomas
"Adam Smith" <none> wrote in message
news:%23ohdlHxcEHA.3728@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> However, no-one has managed to improve upon the sheer power of Notepad.
>
> --
> Adam Smith
>
> "David Younger" <davidyounger1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eyFqTZwcEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I am a veteran FoxPro developer who loved BFP but has decided that our
> large
> > commercial project that is extremely rich and complex in many ways and
is
> > running like a charm and selling well in its vertical space. We have
> decided
> > that the product needs to be completely rewritten for the next
generation
> of
> > our product, essentially providing similar functionality but on a much
> more
> > modern platform, capable of letting us provide not only for the SMB
market
> > but also easily upscale for the mid market.
> >
> > I am pretty convinced that Visual Studio is the way to go but I am not
> that
> > knowledgeable on its capabilities and have a wish list of items I am
> looking
> > for.
> >
> > Ideally, much of this will either be provided by Visual Studio or by 3rd
> > party addon products.
> >
> > Our application is multi windows, with complex multi tabbed forms with
> many
> > (sometimes hundreds of controls) on some of the more complex forms.
> >
> > I am not sure how realistic some of these requirements are and obviously
> > will be willing to drop some of them if they are unrealistic.
> >
> > Assuming money was no object, some of the things I would like to have
> > include:
> >
> > - Complex Data dictionary controlling all aspects of a control
> > - Business rules library
> > - Resizeable forms
> > - Multi-lingual
> > - Easily transported to PDA / web application
> > - Database independant (SQL Server, Access etc, MYSQL etc).
> > - User enabled Form designer (so that end users can customise the layout
> of
> > the forms on the finished product) (not sure how that would work with
our
> > complex tabbed interface forms but I am willing to relook at the entire
> user
> > interface experience
> > - Modularised deployment with easy deployment of small patches
> > - Real time web lookup of our registrations database for expiry /
> > reregistration
> > - Source code security
> > - Easily extensible to other packages (Accounting/CRM)
> > - Able to be developed in no time flat (rapid development environment)
> > - Self error checking or at least, easy to error check / test for new
> > releases
> > - Fast performance with large data sets
> >
> > Gosh - probably a million more but you get the idea.
> >
> > Basically, does such a platform exist to let me do all the above or do I
> > have to write the entire underlaying framework / infrastructure from
> > scratch?
> >
> > I would appreciate honest answers, possibly leading to a colaboration
with
> > someone knowledgebale in this area to help us get the project off the
> > ground.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David Younger
> > The Service Manager
> >
> >
>
>
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