Yet another posting...

rhayes — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:15:00 GMT

...what's the world coming to?? I'm trying to at least get a post a week out. But, in reality, I've not much to blog about. It has been a busy week - between business and life.

I've had some fun with building an application for Microsoft Small Business Accounting. It's really interesting to see how "fresh" the product really is. One thing for sure is that it is at least all written in .NET (unfortunately 1.1). That has been a great thing since there is VERY little documentation or help available for most of the methods, properties, etc. on the classes of the SDK. Well, nothing a little Reflector (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) can't help with. There are still some mysteries, but Reflector and a little time goes a long way. My application is far from complete, and now that I have at least prototyped the functions needed from SBA, my attention is now turned toward the UI - which is a WinForms app. But, man...after working in VS 2005, I am back in 2003 and really miss the 2005. I understand that I can perhaps use 2005 for the development, but there are some tricks to getting it to work...somehow I am finding that the parts I am missing from 2005 are easier to get around than figuring out how to deal with this in 2005. Maybe it will come to me.

As a side note on the whole SBA thing, I was sorely disappointed that there were some "key" capabilities lacking from the SDK that I found only a SQL query would do. That really sucks because now my application is SBA version locked.

'til next time.

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