Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 09:06:35 CST 2013
The language is much richer than VBA and you have greater control over every minute aspect of every object, which can be overwhelming at times. If you go VB.Net, at least the language and syntax is familiar. It's hard to remember at first that EVERYTHING in .Net is an object with its own methods and properties, even a simple string. So you aren't using equals statements or set commands the way you do in Access. "str = 'Ted'" is no longer the way to do it. Net allows for inheritance, implementing custom interfaces, and permits you to create custom object classes, which isn't possible in Access VBA. There is a LOT to learn new in .Net, so plan to do a lot of studying and trying things out. Charlotte On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Brad Marks <BradM at blackforestltd.com>wrote: > All, > > There is a good chance that I may be asked to support a website that was > built with Visual Studio. > > I have never worked with this environment. > > For the past five years I have primarily worked with Access, VBA, etc. > > In a prior life, I worked with COBOL, Assembler, Easytrieve, JCL, SUPRA, > DB2 etc. - therefore some slight brain damage :-) > > I would like to know how difficult the transition is from Access and VBA > to Visual Studio. > > Thanks, > Brad > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >