That looks to be pretty much the kind of thing I'm after. If yourself or anyone else could comment on how easy it is to get up the learning curve, implement user access rights, "record" locking, etc that would also be useful. I will research this as best I can from the link you provided, however, it is always useful to hear from people that have had real-life experience of any given tool. Many thanks. Ciao.

I've got a requirement to build a fairly simple data entry & retrieval application with a small amount of workflow. Is anybody aware of a tool that would, for example, take a description of the business model and spit out an ASP.NET application? I guess what I've got in mind is something like MS Access for building web apps - hope that makes sense. Another way of phrasing the question would be: How can somebody that is unfamiliar with building web apps get up & running in the shortest possible amount of time? Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Ciao.

Well John, I wouldn't go to an Internet forum for career advice, however, I also don't feel the need to abuse others for doing so. Maybe you just care too much. Or maybe you were bullied at school. I can certainly see why you feel the need to quote others as you appear to have nothing of significance to say yourself.

How about "twat"?

Calm down dear -- it's not that unusual for somebody to not like their job. Anyway, surely it's a good thing that there are people out there creating this mess for you to clean up? Perhaps an alternative career mopping floors beckons for you!

I believe that there is only a payout upon arrest AND conviction.

I'm not so sure I'd have been able to answer any of them beyond "not...", however, I did come across this site www.funtrivia.com[^] whilst I was googling for the answers.

You may well be LMAO (or should that be LYAO), however, as I'm still developing in and supporting it I fail to see the funny side!!!

How about clipper (nothing to do with sailing)

I'm glad you asked the question -- now I feel like less of an idiot for not knowing myself.

Hey, I like the fact your numbering starts from zero -- nice touch!

I've done something vaguely similar but for business applications. I implemented the Composite pattern for classes that enabled me to create a graph of objects, with each node having a business rule (validations + calculations mainly) collection. It was then obviously possible to iterate over the object graph and "execute" the business rules. Each view (for editing) was a user control and I had a "mapper" than mapped from each node's concrete type to the correct user control. Hope this makes sense!

Okey doke -- but this is only the case when there is data binding between the database and the client right? I'm sure there must be plenty of apps out there, other than Excel, that required an explicit save. I'm not sure if I get the point that was originally being made. Was this being suggested as a good thing, a bad thing, or just an example of where the "developer" mis-understood what was going on?

At the risk of sounding like a fool, could I ask you to please explain the bit about changes being saved immediately instead of when the save icon is clicked.

Also helps if they are funny! ;)