[AccessD] Learning .Net

Mark,

<<At one of my clients, Access is being banned by the IT department.
However, the users fought to retain it as a prototyping platform...and they
won that battle.>>

  That's too bad as Access still has a place in the IT world in that it
makes an excellent front end.  The places where JET can be used as a data
store however are getting to be few and far between.

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:36 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Learning .Net

I have to totally agree Darryl.
Although AC2007 has that cool linkage to Sharepoint lists, hardly anyone
uses it.
One big reason is that the sync feature is disabled in the run-time version.

At one of my clients, Access is being banned by the IT department.
However, the users fought to retain it as a prototyping platform...and they
won that battle.

Also your mention of C# is interesting....as it appears that VB.NET is just
a ugly step-child of the original VB. VB.NET code is so verbose and not
elegant at all....IMHO.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl
> Collins
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:54 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Learning .Net
>
> As for VBA and Access - I feel MS Access 2007 is now seriously wounded
> as a development platform. Is is becoming just a ballsy spreadsheet
> with data integrity for power users
> - rather then the seriously useful beastie it was.
>
> I think the future for what we do is much more SQL Server BE with
> ASP.Net browser based FE (coded in C# no less) - and I am busy
> learning those skills right now.  Yep, the learning curve seems steep,
> but I am confident it will be all worth it.  VBA is a dying language
> IMHO, I feel sad about that, but it seem to be true.
>
> just my thoughts
> Darryl.
>




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