jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Oct 11 22:18:58 CDT 2007
Well William, good to hear from you. There are a few of us hanging out on the AccessD VB group. 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 William Hindman Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:09 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for Web Solution Providers ...I too have shifted my development environment from primarily Access to .Net ...and if you like 2 you're going to love 3.5 :) ...if only there was an AccessD equivalent for .Net ...tried quite a few ...keep coming back here for some damn reason :) William ----- Original Message ----- From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for Web Solution Providers > Having started using VS2005 (in 2007) I must say I am extremely > impressed with the functionality of VB.Net and Visual Studio. .NET > 2.0 is a programmers dream, assuming you are willing to climb the learning curve. > I > also have to say I was not nearly as impressed with .Net 1.0 and in > fact my experience with that was one reason I delayed so long in > trying to do the 2.0 stuff. > > I am nowhere near proficient with 2.0 but I like it a lot. > > 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 Gustav > Brock > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:09 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for > Web Solution Providers > > Hi all > > We (my employer and I) don't want to spend money on the "MS exam circus" > as > the ROI is zero. Thus, our official Small Business Specialist status > will be lost (and our clients don't care as they hardly knew that > anyway). No big deal. > > However, that status have the additional benefit that combined with > the Action Pack Subscription (where the ROI is huge) you are offered > Visual Studio Standard 2005 for free. So no SB partner => no free VS > which is bad now that VS2008 is close. > > But a new free add-on to the Action Pack is now announced which could > be of interest for those of you not having Visual Studio yet or have > felt the limitations of the free Express editions, a "special edition > toolkit" for Web Solution Providers: > > https://partner.microsoft.com/webresourcekit > > It includes Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2008 and Expression Studio. > The estimated ship date for the kit is January 2008. > > One of the steps to obtain the kit is to: > > Successfully complete one of three free online courses and the > associated assessment with a score of 70 percent or higher .. > > These seems to have a duration from 0,5 to 1,5 hours, so you have to > pay by spending some of your valuable time! > > /gustav > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com