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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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 Posted - 18 Dec 2005 : 11:04:48
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Thank you very much for your words, I am really happy when people like XMM so much.
I am trying to add in the new generation of XMM the support for different databases, like SQLServer, Access (native) and others, I hope to find the right way for do this 
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crissand
Starting Member
Romania
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Posted - 21 Dec 2005 : 20:15:46
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I'm afraid the information from XMM cannot be published on other sites, being copyrighted. As you all know, the info about the movies is "extracted" from copyrighted webpages and cannot be published again on others.
Now, about the software.
Since there are a lot of Windows 9x in the world, the best solution is to provide two versions, a .net and a VB6 version. Or just use VB6 for future improvement, working in the same time to a .net version.
If you want to go to .Net, think about using a xml database, and not Access. The conversion is simple, there is software that does just that. |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2005 : 22:59:18
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Hi,
Yes, there are problems by putting online informations like plot, but for imformations like director, actors and genre etc.. there should be not problems. People put online their collection just for let their friends look at it.
About .NET, it's compatible with all windows from 98.
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bsb
Starting Member
Canada
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Posted - 29 Dec 2005 : 05:44:01
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Txs Alessio for the efforts on XMM. I see the need to switch to .NET. We like it or not, the future is there. Lately, I've been working on small projects about coding frontend apps using VB.NET and Access DBs. I do believe that XMM will become faster. But be carefull, there're many traps and some tricky bugs in .NET. As some say: "Measure twice then cut once!". Hopefully, you're gonna keep the mdb format because sometimes I use Access to apply mass changes to some fields or may be you can have a converter included to convert the db back and forth. I think the interface needs refinment towards more user friendly and clean access to some features like allowing to download the titles info from the Internet right after adding mass titles instead trying to find all added titles later again. Selecting easier more than one title from the lists will help a lot. A couple of more things I want to mension: more flexible search through more fields including custom ones. For ex. if I search for DVD-R it gives me also DVD-RW. I like to be able to change the media icon for a title manualy if necessary, because now if I type DVD-R as a media, I loose the DVD icon and may be it will be fun if everybody can create and implement their own media icons. So, the bottom line is, if you decide to switch to .NET, it's the time now to think about changes in the interface and how to speed up the access without loosing the flexibility. At the end, the choice is yours. Txs
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themadbomber
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 09 Jan 2006 : 16:43:29
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Alessio,
The program is fantastic! Anything that you could do to make it better would be fully supported. Sorry, but I'm unable to help you with the technical aspect of the transition.
Thanks-
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emonsalve
Starting Member
Spain
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Posted - 11 Jan 2006 : 18:10:20
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| Alessio, Thanks for keeping updated XMM. I would just suggest that 'customers fields' could be exported this time without anything else that XMM. |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
9171 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2006 : 19:42:53
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OK, I will try to do that 
Thank you!
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New releases of XMM...VB6 or .NET?