They're OK ish. Not as good as the advertising sometimes puffs them up to
be. And they're not cheap. You need a real reason to buy them. They're a bit
'rough round the edges' too. You know, labels on forms (their forms) that
don't display properly and suchlike.
Visual Code Tools I use a lot and it's saved me a lot of time. Inserting
line numbers, formatting text, inserting default error handlers etc. I
haven't used it's comment creators, or SQL and rst creators yet. I'll try
that part of it sometime. It's formatting, especially if you use line
numbers, can sometimes be a bit odd.
Visual Source Book has got some useful stuff in it. It's also got a lot of
very thin wrappers for existing functions. Hardly used it. I'm going to
start using it more, since somebody here reminded me that you can use it as
your own code library.
Total Memo I bought and haven't used once. Didn't do what I wanted. Might
investigate again.
Total Access Analyser I bought and ran a couple of times and it told me 3000
things that were wrong with my database. Might investigate again.
Some things, like the FE updater, or whatever it's called, look a bit
expensive for what they do. I wrote my own in VB in a couple of days, saved
the money, learnt a lot and have something I can adapt/extend for the
future. Visual Agent looks OK, except I don't think it runs as a service, so
you've got to leave a user logged onto the server, probably with Admin
privileges, which is a bad idea generally. Read the specs very carefully
before you buy to make sure it does what you want it to.
Yours, Mike
PS, if you work for FMS and you're just 'shilling' then all their products
are worthless.
"Lauren Wilson" <???@???.???> wrote in message
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I'd like to hear from anyone who has used any of the products from FMS
at www.fmsinc.com.
Just curious about your experience with these products.