[AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook

Charlotte, 

A library is a group of code, the source stored (and more importantly
MAINTAINED) in one location but used in more than one place.  Tell me how
that is different?

There is no foul here.  Access is the ONLY Office application that allows
libraries but they are indeed libraries.  A group of code, stored and
maintained in one location but used in more than one place.  Because they
are stored in one location, you fix a bug one time, at that stored location,
and then distribute the fix version to the other locations where the code is
used.

Now I understand that with a versioning system you can get into issues there
but that is an intentional step that you take because you have a reason to
have more than one branch of the code.

And if an Access library (which they are called libraries inside of our
programming environment) is not a library, how much more "not a library" is
a "cut and paste" exercise?

I am discussing a simple concept here, which you KNOW is "correct".  I did
not make this up, I have no vested interest in you or anyone else using it.
It is a concept taught and used throughout the industry.

C'mon Charlotte, give it up.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:38 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook

FOUL!  Libraries in managed code aren't anything like Access libraries and
you know it!  Grrrr

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook

>And that my friends is why the .NET managed code libraries make a lot 
>of
sense. :)

Notice the use of the word LIBRARIES.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:53 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook

And that my friends is why the .NET managed code libraries make a lot of
sense. :)

Combine that with n-tier approach and the software development life cycle is
less painful to manage.