> Your 'horror stories' must stem from bad programming practices rather then
> any flaws or bad design within VB5.0.
> Installation problems are not insurmountable. In my opinion VB5.0 is THE
> product to use for business applications.
Alright, we have to do a VB business application. We currently have the problem that the VB OLE control doesn't allow copying the contents of an Access OLE field to clipboard if the OLE server responsible for the content is not installed. This was possible with the MS Access application we currently have to rewrite.
I have scanned several newsgroups, knowledge bases and the like. Right now I am digging into the Win32 and OLE API originally written in C/C++. I see lots of Declare statements with strange translations of function signatures from C/C++ to VB. I ask myself: If plain VB is not enough to do my work, wouldn't it be better to use C++ from the beginning? I guess your answer is: to do tasks in Visual C++ is harder and takes longer because it isn't as visual as VB. Right, but then you should take look at C++Builder which is true Visual (like VB) and delivers C++ power. My experience is: for plain database front ends MS Access is the best tool, but if you need flexibility you should avoid VB because for plain database work it isn't as good as MS Access and for the rest it is outperformed by Delphi and C++Builder.
Finally my question: do you know how to solve the above mentioned problem in VB?
Regards, Peter.
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