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Yes, I think technology is making imbeciles out of many of the current generation. True story. I hope you find this as amusing as it is sad. On the way home from work recently, I called and ordered pizza from a place near my house. I pulled through the drive thru window and a teenage girl opened it, asked my name, and then told me the total was $13.75. I handed her a 20. Now, my 10 year old could have made that change in his head, without pause, and without even really thinking about it. She took the 20, walked over to the cash register, and opened it. She stood there a minute in thought, took out some money, then put it back and closed the drawer. She stood there a minute longer, then opened the drawer again, thought about it some more, then closed the drawer yet again. Apparently the computer on the cash register was broken or something. At this point, she reaches under the counter and pulls out a calculator, which she proceded to punch numbers into for a good two minutes. And finally she opens the drawer and takes out my six dollars and a quarter. I feel afraid for our future when a High School junior or senior can't make simple change.

Don't complain. Squeaky wheels are going to eventually ruin vb.Net.

I get Visual Studio Magazine. I like it a lot, but it's pretty thin for the price, IMHO.

Here's another good one http://www.irritatedvowel.com/Programming/Standards.aspx

Will we be able to remove these "things" by removing Microsoft.VisualBasic and/or Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility ? If so, who cares... If not, kudos to Microsoft for continuing to screw up what could be a very good language... :-\

New forum software. Maybe some ads. No popups.

And there's no reason in the world to use Call.

Dim tbl As New ADOX.Table() Dim col As New ADOX.Column() Dim cat As New ADOX.Catalog() 'Engine Type=4 is Access 97 and a value of 5 is Access 2000 cat.Create("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source=d:\My Documents\db10.mdb;" & _ "Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=4;") tbl.Name = "NewTable" col.Name = "DateField" col.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adDate tbl.Columns.Append(col) col = New ADOX.Column() col.Name = "Address2" col.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col.DefinedSize = 20 col.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable tbl.Columns.Append(col) col = New ADOX.Column() col.Name = "Age" col.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adInteger col.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable tbl.Columns.Append(col) cat.Tables.Append(tbl) cat.Tables("NewTable").Columns("Address2").Properties("Jet OLEDB:Allow Zero Length").Value = True

http://www.vbwm.com/resources/default.asp?page=TutorialsVBNET

.Net doesn't do casting for you like previous versions.

.Net is the latest version of Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, ASP, ADO, etc, etc, etc. Also comes with C# and J#.

Anis, with the exception I noted above.

If you want to use .Net, unmanaged c++ doesn't require the .Net framework. I think.

c# also requires the .Net framework.

Use c/c++