[AccessD] OT PDAs

Actually, AppForge let's you use Access databases....sort of.  You have to
convert them into .pdb's (the palm's db format), but you can setup HotSync
conduits with an ODBC connection to sync a .pdb to a table within an .mdb.
 
I have an older version of appforge, which is kind of limited it what it can
do.  (No collections, or classes, etc.).  It runs in VB, so you make a VB
project, and then you can compile it to a palm prc file.  Works great, but
the version I have is really limited as far as actual VB capabilities.  The
current version looks like you can do almost anything you can do in a normal
VB 6 project (classes, collections, events, etc).  But it's a little pricey
(I think it's around 8 or 9 hundred dollars).
 
Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:01 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT PDAs


There have been some discussions on this in Woody's Lounge ( www.wopr.com
<http://www.wopr.com> ), but unfortunately the search function is down at
present, so I can't point you at anything particular.   Non-Palm OS PDAs can
run a version of Access if they run Windows CE, but Palm can only run things
like HandBase.
 
Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Reid [mailto:mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:39 AM
To: accessd
Subject: [AccessD] OT PDAs


Anyone any experience of using PDAs on a large scale. I am looking at the
use of PDAs for database access for students for example logging into
internal student systems using a wireless network.
 
Was wondering if anyone has been involved in anything like this? Particulary
in education.
 
Martin

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