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school! BAH ive had enough school i got 4 classes left until i get my Bachelors in Computer Engineering :D Plus i do this as a hobbie, i dont feel like dropping my other nut to pay for it :p I dont mind doing the reading...Anyone got any examples of like flow charts or UML diagrams etc from REAL applications? I learn best from looking at how other people did it and have yet to find any really good examples.

I too have trouble in the planning phase. I have tons of good ideas, but dont know how to spit them all out onto paper in a way that would allow me to program from it. I do better to just start right off programming which i know isnt the correct way to do things, especially on larger applications. I am very interested if anyone has any good examples!

Sure, there seems to be a small bug, to get all the tool bars etc, you need to go to the view menu, and uncheck the different options, then recheck them. Once you recheck them, they will appear. I think it has somethign to do with the new dock manager control they are using. I have to admit that i dont use this ide myself, however i have been following it closely and like where its going. I dont know if it will do completely what you want, however it is for the 1.1 framework, so i imagine it can.

an interface is basically a contract. They are pretty powerful and you could use them for a plugin based application. Divils Plugin Article

i dont believe you can get the new features in vs.net 2002. hence the reason i pointed you to that becuase it works with the .net framework 1.1 :)

Right now, im currently evaluating Perforce, they are a commercial product, but they offer a two client license for free and also open source licenses. Two client works great for a single developer like myself, and the best part about it, is that it integrates with vs.net and comes with a bunch of other ways of accessing the depot. I still would like hear other peoples opinions on the matter....any negatives? Also, what software do you use?

Since its just a hobby, you might want to checkout Sharp Develop (#develope) it now supports vb, and its pretty freakin cool! Best of all, its completely free. http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

I am a single developer as a hobbie basically. But im embarking on a pretty complex and large project. I have 3 computers i develope on, home , work and laptop. I currently have a zip drive connected to each with some syncronization software installed, so i jsut pop the disk in, it auto copies the files to disk, blah blah blah. Its very slick, clean and easy. I see though that a lot of projects use either CVS, subversion or perforce(i like this one). Besides the multiple developer issue, is source control something i should spend the time to learn and use given my situation? What do you guys think? Becuase im really torn on what to do!

Try not using the wizards, and manually specify the select statement and stuff of the dataadapter. I dont really know why it would matter, but whenever i run into a problem, i start to eliminate things one by one, usually starting with stuff i didnt specify myself.

You should nto be getting a delay. It seems like something else is screwed up. Possibly your connection string? Are you using the commandbuilder to make your queryies or anything, cuase i havent tried using that before so maybe thats it.

You need to reinstall from the command line give it something like this... setup.exe INSTANCENAME=VSDotNET SAPWD=password SECURITYMODE=SQL That last parameter is important!!!! second, if you are trying to access the database from a computer other then the one it is installed on or over the network you may have to run a small utility that is installed at runtime to install the tcp/ip pipes and adjust the ports etc...i know i had to do this, but i dont recalll of the top of my head exactly how i did it. It was small program located in the server directory after install.

Has anyone used llblgen Pro database mapper. I am considering using it, and i wanted to here some feedback from people who have used it.

It seems to me you can use ADOX to do it, but i am not sure how but i remember seeming some code somewhere that did it. I know it can create access databases, which you do that and then convert it to dbase through code.

There is also raptier, which has a free version available, but is limited to 15 tables and 15 views. http://www.sharppower.com/Default.aspx They seem to have good support also, as i have emailed them a couple times and i always get a response within 24 hours. One user stated, objectz.net was the most expensive, how do you figure? They are the cheapest, they offer the best free version i have found so far and even there professional and enterprise versions are $49.95 and $99.95 which is EXCELLENT for a college student like myself with no money. I only worry as they have a lot of unanswered questions on there forums and i have noticed that they have fooled around a bit with the support policy on there product. I currently am torn between using raptier and objectz. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages. has anyone used either and can give me some suggestions on what they have found?

anyone? :)