Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 6th Mar 2006 02:01 UTC
In .NET 1.0, the DataGrid control was the primary Windows Forms control for presenting tabular data. Even though that control had a lot of capability and could present basic tabular data well, it was fairly difficult to customize many aspects of the control. Additionally, the DataGrid control didn't expose enough information to the programmer about the user interactions with the grid and changes occurring in the grid due to programmatic modifications of the data or formatting. Due to these factors and a large number of new features that customers requested, the Windows Client team at Microsoft decided to introduce a replacement control for the DataGrid in .NET 2.0. That new control, the DataGridView control, is the focus of this chapter.
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PHP is about as elegant a solution as perl for writing anything more than a BBS site. There is a reason why virtually all (web based) IT projects are written in either A) Java or B).Net, first and foremost being that both of these frameworks are supported professionally by their respective companies. Nothing mission critical would _ever_ be written in PHP, so amongst IT professionals it's pretty much a joke. It has its place, but IT definitely isn't one of them, so trying to compare PHP to .Net is a farce.
I agree that .Net's breadth is large, but with that breadth you get much more power and control over the software you write. It only took me about a month to ramp up when .Net came out about 5 years ago.
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2005-10-14
compare it to PHP and you'll see exactly what i mean.
besides ftpwebrequest is .NET 2.0 only- and the example code needed to be pased on to developers - i didn't want to expect them to upgrade to .NET 2.0
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FtpWebRequest Class
Note: This class is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.
Implements a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client.
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i put in the time and practice - but i need to get things done - not spend my life trying to workaround an overcomplicated technology - therefore i use PHP.
i did mention it was ASP.NET not VB.NET - but thanks for the pointer. this is from the MS website and even there they admit the problem.
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Why My?
One of the biggest issues that programmers run into is the sheer breadth of .NET, which makes finding the best class for a particular task quite daunting. I have read many newsgroup postings from developers working very hard to call a Win32® API function from their Visual Basic .NET or C# code, when that exact function already exists in .NET. Why are they trying to call the API? They didn't find, notice, or perhaps understand how they could use existing parts of the Framework.
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check out www.php.net - concise, elegant etc.
in future i'm not going to respond to this astroturfing in detail cos it's a waste of time.