Hello, I took an intro course for Vs.Net and in class we used a lot of drag and drop and point an click methods for multiple topics. For instance, creating a DB connection, Creating an OLeDBDataAdapter, creating Datasets. Pretty much all we had to do in the
Page Load event was to fill the DataSet and Databind. However, In all of the books I have looked at, (and it seems a vast majority if not all of the people posting to this forum), are writing everything from scratch...dataconnections, Selects, inserts, etc..
I feel like I need to start from the beginning and fore go all of the drag and drop methods, and get down into the code. I am using vs.net 2003, and I don't know if all of the simplified functionality was even available in previous versions, so I don't know
if I should continue in the direction I am heading or should I go back and start doing everything through code. What are your feelings on this? Thanks
I would look towards writing your own code rather tha using the wizard generated code. The wizard code will do 80% of what you want to do just fine, but that leaves you with the other 20%. And then you have to understand the wizard code, in addition to the
underlying ADO.NET. On the other hand, I have used programmers IDE's where using the "non-visual components" like connection objects, etc., made sense (Borland's Delphi, for example). In my view, VS.NET is not quite there yet in that area.
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