Re: mi access to a dtaara

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark_s_waterbury@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do NOT think that this forum (MI400 list) is the place to discuss
Microsoft's .NET strategy or platform, or for that matter, anything
else about Microsoft. Thank you.

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: mi access to a dtaara


> thanks for the feedback.
>
> Any response that does not repeat itself now goes down the "should os/400
> provide the 2nd level api's that many shops wind up writing or using
> taatools for" path.  I vote YES and will leave it at that.
>
> Now if anyone wants to discuss the microsoft .NET approach ....
>
> .NET provides a class and member function interface to the os. To relate
it
> to my data area issue, the os would provide a DataArea class. The class
then
> has member functions like Crt, Dlt, Rtv, Chg, Lock, ...  All programs that
> run on a windows .NET pc have access to the class.  Not bad for a company
> that critics say does not innovate.
>
> -Steve Richter
>
>
>
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