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- From: DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU (Brad Porter)
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 vs Visual Basic 2.0
- Message-ID: <168C5113C5.DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
- Organization: Syracuse University
- References: <1992Dec20.171741.29641@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:54:32 EST
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec20.171741.29641@eng.umd.edu>
- equine@eng.umd.edu (Melinda L. Gierisch) writes:
-
- >
- >
- >For the last 8 months my group has been developing a Windows
- >application using the BC++ 3.1 Object Windows Library. This
- >program accesses Paradox tables using the Paradox Engine. Someone in
- >the group suggested using Visual Basic for much of the user interface
- >because he believes it is more flexible and easier to use than OWL.
- >No one else in the group has any experience with Visual Basic. My
- >questions are:
- >
- >1) What is the "ramp up time" or learning curve for creating windows,
- >dialogs, etc. with Visual Basic? We needed about 3 months to get
- >fully comfortable with OWL.
- >
- >2) How easy / difficult would it be to combine Visual Basic windows
- >and dialogs with BC++ functions for database access (these have
- >already been written and are not OWL dependent)?
- >
- >If anyone out there has experience programming in both Visual Basic
- >and C++ I would appreciate any help.
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >Melinda Gierisch
-
- The only thing I can respond to in this article is the question pertaining to
- learning curve on Visual Basic. When it comes to designing the interface
- and creating the dialog box - one full day would get anyone remotely familiar
- with programming up to speed. I've written in C for DOS and Visual Basic is
- hundreds of times easier with user interface. I can't offer any advice on
- ease of importing C++ code, or doing database work, but as for ease of design
- and interface, I don't think VB can be beat.
- -Brad Porter
- DRPORTER@SUVM
-