[AccessD] Simple-Talk commentary

No, no...I would not dismiss this commentary.
I've witnessed first-hand Access being banned in a corporate environment.
For the most part, it's dead. In my neck of the woods, there hasn't been a
meaningful Access development contract request in over 2 years.

However, Excel lives on and indeed the new Powerpivot in 2010 is going to
keep in humming along....
 unchallenged by the ever-so-pathetic Open Office initiative.
And when you look at the Querycell add-in, suddenly Excel becomes an
in-memory database of sorts.
Unfortunately Microsoft has strategically decided to let VBA just die.....so
it's dot-net and VSTO for GUI controls and logic for add-ins. Indeed, MSFT
provided named parameters in C# in Visual Studio 2010 expressly for the
purpose of providing intellisense for Office application interop with
dot-net.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Gustav Brock
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:10 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Simple-Talk commentary
>
> Hi Steve
>
> Reading the few comments already posted, I think it would be
> waste of time to comment further.
> All the usual Access-bashing. Yawn.
> Even Tony's own suggestion of using Excel as a frontend
> demonstrates the low level.
>
> That said, there is no upgrade path other than using an SQL
> (any brand) as backend.
> Other than that, as demonstrated by several list members,
> move to Visual Studio.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> >>> erbachs at gmail.com 17-05-2010 11:10 >>>
> Dear Group,
>
> I receive the Simple-Talk newsletter from Red Gate software.
> It's a SQL Server-boosting publication with lots of good
> articles sponsored with ads for Red Gate products.
>
> The editorial content is good, too.  This month's edition (out this
> morning) had the following editorial and I thought I'd pass it along.
> What do you think about the editor's point that there is no
> obvious upgrade path from Access and that it has long
> out-lived its usefulness?
>
>
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