Sample Projects

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In the bad old days, one of my favourite tricks was to ask senior Cobol
programmers how many 'divisions' a Cobol program had, and what their names
were.

THey NEVER new. Because NO ONE EVER WROTE A COBOL PROGRAM FROM SCRATCH.
They all had directories full of previously written programs, and they'd copy
something similar and use it as a starting point, modifying it whhere
neccessary.

One of the best features of VS 6 (VB 6) was it's application generation
wizard which would put together a skeleton application with a sample splash
screen, options page, data entry screen, etc.
This ramped up the initial application development time enormously, and gave
beginers a place to start (and gave senior developers something to be snooty
about.)

Why has it never appeared since? Has anyone else developed anyting similar
for VS 7/8?
What is the best sample project to use as a starting point in VS 7 or 8?

--
David Gordon-Brown

[Jeff Gaines]

On 08/12/2007 in message
<61**********************************@microsoft.co mDavid GB wrote:

>This ramped up the initial application development time enormously, and
gave
beginers a place to start (and gave senior developers something to be
snooty
about.)

Why has it never appeared since? Has anyone else developed anyting similar
for VS 7/8?
What is the best sample project to use as a starting point in VS 7 or 8?

I have just achieved something similar by starting an app from new, adding
the bits I wanted, and saving it as a user template. I now base all my
apps on that template. I don't know how far you can take it in respect of
links to files etc. but it may be worth experimenting with.

--
Jeff Gaines