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Mark,
You are 100 percent correct. I failed to properly explain the scenario. Our clients are not all remote or local but about half and half with the remote clients slightly out numbering the local (lan) users. What I meant by the ADO .Net comment was that ADO did not support disconnected recordsets as does ADO .Net. If we had the functionality of ADO .Net in the begining the use of a Web based app other then for specialty circumstances such as hand held users (Palm devices, ect) probably would not have even been addressed.
My feelings are that the rich interfeace (Presentation layer) that a Winforms app offers in .Net outweights the benefits of a web based app and it’s own limitations. Again some apps are best suited for web based and ASP I just don’t believe ours is. Many task are menu driven with extensive data entry and reporting which are more difficult and less intuitive in the Web based world.

Thanks again for your thoughts.

Ed

Mark,
Thanks for your answer and it is exactly what i was looking for. I do have a follow-up Q though.

My preference towards sticking with just VB .Net is that while our Web based app that uses ASP has some great functionality it does so only because that same functionality was intentionally left out of our VB based app. This also comes at a price of a less feature rich user interface then what the VB based product can offer as well as the requirement of a web server. Taking this to the .Net level it still seems that this rings true between VB .Net & ASP .Net . The deployment issue is not a big deal for us. What I mean by that is that it was not a key reason for developing a Web based app in the first place. We did this soley to address how to provide and user interface for remote clients without the need for Citrix or some other product like it. If we had started the product in VB .Net I doubt the thought of having a web based interface would have even come up as a serious possibility. Bottom line for me is that the need for the web based app is gone with the intro of ADO.Net and since VB .Net offers a much richer user interface without the need for a web server I feel we should stick with VB .Net. I am not against ASP, ASP .Net or web based applications. I am a firm believer that no one tool is great for every scenario. There are cases where web base is the best solution and cases where it is not.

Thoughts?

Thanks
Ed

Mark,
Thanks for your answer and it is exactly what i was looking for. I do have a follow-up Q though.

My preference towards sticking with just VB .Net is that while our Web based app that uses ASP has some great functionality it does so only because that same functionality was intentionally left out of our VB based app. This also comes at a price of a less feature rich user interface then what the VB based product can offer as well as the requirement of a web server. Taking this to the .Net level it still seems that this rings true between VB .Net & ASP .Net . The deployment issue is not a big deal for us. What I mean by that is that it was not a key reason for developing a Web based app in the first place. We did this soley to address how to provide and user interface for remote clients without the need for Citrix or some other product like it. If we had started the product in VB .Net I doubt the thought of having a web based interface would have even come up as a serious possibility. Bottom line for me is that the need for the web based app is gone with the intro of ADO.Net and since VB .Net offers a much richer user interface without the need for a web server I feel we should stick with VB .Net. I am not against ASP, ASP .Net or web based applications. I am a firm believer that no one tool is great for every scenario. There are cases where web base is the best solution and cases where it is not.

Thoughts?

Thanks
Ed

After some changes I was able to spot the change to a negative value. I had to change the cells format of the number display so that it displayed the complete value and did not use scientific notation. When it was using scientific notation the conditional formatting for the cell didn’t work.

Ed

After some changes I was able to spot the change to a negative value. I had to change the cells format of the number display so that it displayed the complete value and did not use scientific notation. When it was using scientific notation the conditional formatting for the cell didn’t work.

Ed

UPDATE!!!!!

Additional use of Outlook over the past week has revealed more about this problem. It is only with emails that are in HTML format. When I get these emails no pictures are included should the email contain links to images. There is a note in the field where the image would appear that says to right-click if I want to download the images. When I do that the text wrap changes and I no longer need to scroll the page.

Has anyone seen anything like this and would this be considered a bug that should be reported?

Ed

UPDATE!!!!!

Additional use of Outlook over the past week has revealed more about this problem. It is only with emails that are in HTML format. When I get these emails no pictures are included should the email contain links to images. There is a note in the field where the image would appear that says to right-click if I want to download the images. When I do that the text wrap changes and I no longer need to scroll the page.

Has anyone seen anything like this and would this be considered a bug that should be reported?

Ed

Yes.

Yes.

It looks like changing the number of characters to wrap has resolved this problem but I will have to wait a few days so that I have had a chance to check it against numerous emails. Thanks!

It looks like changing the number of characters to wrap has resolved this problem but I will have to wait a few days so that I have had a chance to check it against numerous emails. Thanks!

How do you combine animations with slide transitions?

How do you combine animations with slide transitions?

I have not however if I comment out the close method and then manually colse the xls file via the menus after the code has completed there is no error. I can even compile it via the menus and there are no errors. It’s definately something to d with the ifference between closing the file via code verses doing so through the Excel application interface.

Thanks
Ed

The reason for staying away from ‘Redemption’ is a cost factor. The need for it would not be just for my company but all the clients that use our product. Have you heard of another approach? Perhaps one using CDO (Collaborative Data Objects)?

Ed