The VB.net programming environment is pretty weak. No ability to set break points. No watch box to see what your variables or the BOs themselves are doing in a step interpreter mode.
Also, once a behavior modifying customization is in place, it can simply stop executing with no notification from the application to the users.
.NET customizations seem best suited to changing the interface layout and bringing in additional not native view data when needed.
We have not - but you can purchase the SDK. I would assume with that you can then use a good environment like Visual Studio.
I'm weak in it, but BPM seems to be a much better, more mature environment and, once a BPM is correctly constructed, they execute much more reliably & interface-speed efficiently (as a result of being server processes).
There is the hurdle of having to learn Progress 4GL with BPM but it shouldn't be a big deal for most programmers.
Rob Brown
Also, once a behavior modifying customization is in place, it can simply stop executing with no notification from the application to the users.
.NET customizations seem best suited to changing the interface layout and bringing in additional not native view data when needed.
We have not - but you can purchase the SDK. I would assume with that you can then use a good environment like Visual Studio.
I'm weak in it, but BPM seems to be a much better, more mature environment and, once a BPM is correctly constructed, they execute much more reliably & interface-speed efficiently (as a result of being server processes).
There is the hurdle of having to learn Progress 4GL with BPM but it shouldn't be a big deal for most programmers.
Rob Brown
--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Ken Taylor <ktaylorv@...> wrote:
From: Ken Taylor <ktaylorv@...>
Subject: [Vantage] VB.Net or Progress
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 2:05 PM
To all programmer within Vantage. Just started to look into VB.net under customization and was wondering if there is any information on the pros and cons with VB and Progress. Wondering if there are any programming tools within the Vantage scripting that helps in coding, like debugger or IntelliSense.
Any help would be appreciated.
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