I whole heartedly agree. The green screen is the crusher for our environment.
As far as .Net and Visual Studio go, I don't think it takes even that much effort as having Pick Basic as .Net assemblies to modernize or help perception, although that would be terrific. What would be great is simply the ability to use U2 components in the .Net environment as easily as you can those of other databases. The biggest headache/difference is that of data awareness. The current Visual Studio and much more so in VS 2005 allow you to establish tables/procedures as predefined datasources that can be linked to controls. If we did that, our U2 environments could be used by the dotnet world same as any other database. That puts us on an equal or closer footing with the SQL guys. Then the other features of U2 (flexible dictionaries, variable lengths, etc.) are enhancements to be pitched as selling points. Seems like a couple of vendors started down that road (most notably RD's PDP). Maybe it one day it happens. Mike However my perception is to make PICK more acceptable to younger people and look more mainstream. U2 is hung more for the green screen than for anything else, it is perceived as archaic even though that is far from the fact. If a Blue Chip company was looking at U2, and the basic code was a .Net assembly and we could create tables, etc from the Microsoft Visual Studio it could be the difference between a sale win or loss. It could minimise management wanting to throw U2 out of sites for something more modern as the even older RDBMS. It is the perceptions, not the technicalities that have dropped U2 from mainstream. Regards David Jordan ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
