Re: Visual Basic 5.0 Vs Developer 2000

Doug Cha wrote:
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> -VB is more powerful and gives you higher flexibility for precision
> customization of your appliction. It has a more polished development
> environment since it is a general purpose programming product.
>
> -Dev/2000 is easier to use will give you a useable product faster
> with less debugging time. Reason being that Dev/2000 is tightly
> integrated with Oracle. Things such as field validation and checking
> of row/data consistency is automatic -- something you'd expect with
> a product intended strictly for database application development.

This is all true - but I find that the more complicated your Forms apps get the more the tight oracle integration gets in the way; particuarly when using a cominabtion of database & forms packages & integrating in with other things like TextServer or Context. It also seems to be true that as the size of the database grows a lot of the built in goodies (List Of Values is a good example) no longer work as well as they could, requiring you to write more code to work around.

Im not a great fan of the forms development enviroment, and some of the nasy form-corruping bugs that you hit from time to time. Having said that, it is very good at putting together database apps quickly if you have the right requirements. I expect that VB has its own niggles.. VB3 certainly did.

Were currently using D2000 1.21 / 16bit (I think ?) but are now looking at moving to 32bit (hurra!) and I understand that the new version of D2000 is a lot better, so shall be looking at this Vs VB5 (which I have never used) in the next couple of months... if I get time.

N.

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