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Re: Simple question about e.graphics

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Tom Shelton expressed precisely :
> Mike Williams pretended :
>> "ustc_lz" <zhaol01@gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:43a26d80-eb87-47d7-b928-dd0f0c9f14dd@n42g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> Hi, I have a real simple question:
>>> how do you use the e.graphics..... functions?
>>
>> Well, there's a real simple answer - you're in the wrong newsgroup. This is 
>> a Visual Basic group and the product you are using is NOT Visual Basic, 
>> despite its dishonest and deliberately misleading marketing name. It is an 
>> imposter. You should ask your question on one of the imposter's own 
>> newsgroups, or on one of Micro$oft's heavily policed dotnet fanboy forums.
>
> No he's not.  Go read the charter for this group - it's for all versions of 
> visual basic - and last I checked, Microsoft got to determine what 
> constitutes VB, not you.

And you checked by...  Asking Microsoft?  Sounds more submissive than 
your typical mannerisms might suggest.

No, your entire argument is that of the marketer.  Not the user.  As 
you yourself conclude with:

> Now, I still suggest to the op that they post to one of the more active .net 
> groups - simply because they aren't likely to get any help around here.

And that would be because nearly every other fanboy has decided the 
same thing as Mike.  Only the ignorant remain?  (No offense.  That's 
how your argument reads to the disinterested.)

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Simple question about e.graphics ustc_lz <zhaol01@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 14:11 -0700
  Re: Simple question about e.graphics "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-06-04 22:41 +0100
    Re: Simple question about e.graphics Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-06-04 15:45 -0600
      Re: Simple question about e.graphics Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-06-04 14:55 -0700
        Re: Simple question about e.graphics Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-06-04 16:15 -0600
          Re: Simple question about e.graphics Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-06-04 15:23 -0700
            Re: Simple question about e.graphics Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-06-04 16:34 -0600
              Re: Simple question about e.graphics Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-06-04 15:39 -0700
  Re: Simple question about e.graphics Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2012-06-06 10:52 +0100

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