Your kidding me right?

[Tony Van]

I'm a VB6 programmer trying to make the transition to .NET

I just spend many days learning about Datasets and
DataAdapters and
spend most of two days trying to code an UPDATE command for
the dataadapter along with the parameters for a large
rowset-- and a 1/2 day getting all
the typing errors out.

I'm still not sure if it's going to work.

Its this it? Is this how it's done? This is supposed to
make me
more productive? Please tell me there is an easier way to
do this.

ADO.NET has me longing for my Vb6 disconnected recordsets .

Sorry for the vent. I'm very frustrated with the slowness
of my conversions.

 

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Why don't you start by reading a book, such as Sahil Malik's Pro ado.net 2
(assuming you are on .net 2)

 

[William \(Bill\) Vaughn]

Or my book that covers ADO to ADO.NET transitioning. (ADO and ADO.NET Best
Practices for VB Programmers (APress)).

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Why don't you start by reading a book, such as Sahil Malik's Pro ado.net 2
(assuming you are on .net 2)

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I'm a VB6 programmer trying to make the transition to .NET

I just spend many days learning about Datasets and DataAdapters and
spend most of two days trying to code an UPDATE command for
the dataadapter along with the parameters for a large rowset-- and a 1/2
day getting all
the typing errors out.

I'm still not sure if it's going to work.

Its this it? Is this how it's done? This is supposed to make me
more productive? Please tell me there is an easier way to do this.

ADO.NET has me longing for my Vb6 disconnected recordsets .

Sorry for the vent. I'm very frustrated with the slowness of my
conversions.

 

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Sounds like a good book for him..

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Tony,

Have a look at this,

http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?ID=1139f14a-c236-4ad7-8882-b1ed16424252

Do you know these two free books by the way

http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?ID=1b31f4f7-0596-4b8e-aaf5-e16db864a414

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[grant]

Depending on your type of application ADO.NET datasets may not be
necessarily the best choice. Datasets work well where you need a
completely disconnnected solution that can be scaled to hundreds or
thousands of users. However, IMHO, for small business applications
that support a few users where you would previously have used connected
ADO recordsets then ADO.NET involves a lot of overhead - both
programming and also runtime.

You can of course still use ADODB in .NET for these type of
applications - however you miss out on one of the major benefits of the
..NET architecture - data binding. If you are building this type of
application or particularly if you are porting existing VB6 ADO code
then Infralution has a solution that can help. Our Virtual Data
Objects library allows you to bind .NET controls to ADODB recordsets.
If you are interested you can find more information at
www.infralution.com/virtualdata.html

Regards
Grant Frisken
Infralution

 

[Tony Van]

Thanks to all who replied -- all your suggestions were good
ones.


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