Re: Visual Basic 4 as a front end to Informix on Client-Server

In article <813766639.20840@mlachlan.demon.co.uk> roger@mlachlan.demon.co.uk (Roger McLachlan) wrote: > 1. Should we be using ODBC to get from the client to the server (is > there any other choice?). I've heard dire things about the performance > implications. MS SQL Server 6.0 has achieved *very* good TPC-C benchmark results using the ODBC on the clients. > 3. With VB being an interpreted rather than a compiled language, is > there any scope for re-using code between modules? If not what happens > about source control? I am worried about writing the same bit of code > 50 times for 50 different programs, then finding a bug and having to > correct it in 50 places. Is there any scope for 'library' functions? You can compile VB code into a .EXE with VB 4.0. You can also use Visual Source Safe for version control. -- - Olav Tollefsen - Microsoft Norway - - Nothing I have written here is in any way, shape, or form official - Microsoft policy or opinion, and should not be represented as such - when quoted here or in any other forum.