Ken,
Awesome link to the ecommerce info!
That always was my pet peeve too. All that info about databases and at the
end of the book.....you're not even close to actual money transfers.
Rick Strahl does a fantastic job of covering this topic with all you need to
know without the hernia of yet another fluffy desk reference.
While I'm on a semi-rant..... There was a book (I still have it) "1001
Visual Basic Programmer's Tips" by JAMSA Press. It is one of the most
succinct books on Visual Basic 6 programming ever written. It doesn't build
an entire confusing, convoluted application to teach you about programming.
It shows you 1001 How-To's in a basic, straightforward manner. Each lesson
is usually less than a page.
Those whole-app-books require you to read it beginning to end to make sure
you didn't miss anything in the app that may mess up what you are trying to
do (public variables, enums and class libraries covered in other chapters).
What a waste of time....especia lly in a book about a RAD development tool
like VB.
A complete VB beginner that can write an idea for an app in pseudo code can
take the pseudo code and "1001 Visual Basic Programmer's Tips" and be
productive immediately. (Perfect? No. Productive? Yes!)
It is simply beautiful. The closest thing to it dealing with .Net is the
"C/C++/C# Programmer's Bible" also by JAMSA Press. It has the same style
but covers 3 languages lightly instead of any single language in depth. Oh,
it teaches you what you need to know....just not what you want to know.
I contacted the author of "1001 Visual Basic Programmer's Tips" and begged
him to do one on VB.Net. Alas, he has no plans to do so at this time and is
no longer with JAMSA Press.
RAD tools need RAD lessons. Most VB programmer's don't want to be MIS
Professors....a nd those that do don't mind the long-winded books that are
out currently.
There are a few good books that get close to the 1001 style. Microsoft puts
out a decent version in the "Microsoft Visual Basic.Net Programmer's
Cookbook" and there's the Wrox book "Visual Basic.Net Solutions Toolkit".
Both show simple solutions to "How do I..." questions.
Hey...that gives me an idea......and it isn't writing yet another long
winded programmers book.
Thanks again for the link to your blog.
"Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" <BA**********@n ewsgroups.nospa m> wrote in message
news:uo******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
You'd probably want a setup routine to make the changes using caspol.
Anyway, I'm with you that VSTO has problem when it comes to real-world
usage:
http://weblogs.asp.net/kencox/archiv...eployment.aspx
Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
"ljh" <Re***@groups.p lease> wrote in message
news:Yp******** **********@bign ews3.bellsouth. net... This may be moot at this point......
After I read the "Granting and Removing Permissions for an Office
Solution" thing, there's simply no way an end user would EVER do this to
grant permissions for an Office solution.
I hope like hell that I misunderstood something. Do they really expect
end users to ...
1.. Open Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration again.
2.. Right-click the VSTOProjects node, and then click New on the
shortcut menu.
3.. Enter the name Security Test Strong Name for the new code group, and
then click Next.
4.. In the Choose the condition type for this code group list, click
Strong Name.
5.. Click Import.
6.. Browse to C:\Walkthroughs \My Security Test\My Security Test\bin\My
Security Test.dll for Visual Basic or C:\Walkthroughs \My Security Test\My
Security Test\bin\debug\ My Security Test.dll for C#, and then click Open.
7.. Click Next.
8.. Click Next to accept the FullTrust permission set, and then click
Finish.
9.. Close Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration.
My users are damned lucky to understand how a mouse works. They'll
never get this.
If I haven't misunderstood something, this really sucks for developing
Office solutions in .Net. It just won't happen.
"Lloyd Dupont" <net.galador@ld > wrote in message
news:u0******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl... what would you like to compare?
the file size? => System.IO
the binary content? => System.IO
the rich text content? => http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms186213.aspx
"ljh" <Re***@groups.p lease> wrote in message
news:Eu******** **********@bign ews3.bellsouth. net...
Google ran dry on me while looking for .Net examples of how to compare
2 Word Docs.
Has anyone here seen anything like that?
