[AccessD] Future of Microsoft Access

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Jul 27 20:53:01 CDT 2010


Because Access was written in Assembler (the original product) and then C / C++.  We start with C# 
plus the framework.  We have ADO, we have forms, we have controls, we have all of the stuff that C# 
/ .net framework give us.  The Access team had to write all of that stuff from scratch.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Mark Simms wrote:
> John - I don't understand why 75% of the work would be done already ?
> 
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>>
>> Unless of course you used C# to create it.  Then about 3/4 of
>> the work would be done already.  So that would only leave 10
>> man years.
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> John W. Colby
> 
> 



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