[AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..

Shamil

..I must be missing something ...that sounds like replication to me.

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
To: "!DBA-MAIN" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..


> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to ask you - what about the subject?
> Anybody uses/interested to use MS Access client applications this way?
>
> Do I miss obvious (RTFM) stuff and such a disconnected mode is already
> implemented in MS Access and broadly used by MS Access developers? Yes, I
> know ADO recordsets can be used with bound MS Access forms etc. but this
> looks like a rather limited feature - am I wrong?
>
> What I mean is cashing data locally into mdbs, only the data needed for 
> the
> currently open form(s) etc., processing this data and then updating 
> backend
> database(mdb, MSDE, MS SQL, whatever...) - with all this cashing and
> updating made mostly automatically by a tiny framework code, based on
> ADO.NET...(yes, this local caching of data is not a new subject but 
> nowadays
> it can be (re-)implement really scalable way with a way less efforts than
> before)
>
> Maybe MS plans to do something like that?
>
> Is that a wheel reinvention or anybody here sees such opportunity like a
> really useful feature in their real life projects?
>
> For me it looks like a useful feature because it could help: to get MS
> Access back into mainstream development area because it will allow to 
> easily
> scale applications with MS Access front-ends...
>
> There are many other ideas but most of them in this "ideas pool" based on
> the subject one - if it doesn't make sense for real-life projects then I'd
> better stop working on it...
>
> What is your opinion about the subject?
> When you expect MS will do something like that in MS Access?
>
> Thank you,
> Shamil
>
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