[AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Aug 22 10:29:58 CDT 2005


Shamil,

I would be deeply honored to work with you on this ... Especially if any
failures are all *your* fault! LOL  

I suppose this means that I have to get better are reading C# code,
right?  <sigh>

bBlog looks awesome, and this looks like fun! 


Charlotte


-----Original Message-----
From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at users.mns.ru] 
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:34 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..


Hi Gustav,

Thank you for your welcoming and support!

I have intentions to start approaching and implementing this idea here
beginning next week with progress results published as a blog.

I decided to codename  this project (and its main object) as

"Virtual Data Vault".

It sounds generic but nothing more than making MS Access clients working
in disconnected mode via ADO.NET with MS Access backends is planned on
first steps. I mean first of all MS Access clients using bounds forms
with data cached into local mdb tables...

I don't have a lot of spare time but I do plan to find at least 20-30
minutes per day for this project. To make this project possible and
progressing in such small chunks I see the only way to go is to use XP
with Unit testing. I hope Charlotte Foust will assist me and will be my
peer reviewer becaue she seems to be most interested in this project.
How about that opportunity Charlotte? - if you will find 10 minutes per
day for this peroject - very fine, if just 10 minutes per week - would
be good too! If this project fails or "dies", which may happen of course
- this will be all my fault...

Most of the programming is planned to be done in C#...

For blogging bBlog is currently planned - http://www.bblog.com/ - but
still to find out will it be possible to install it here on my ISP
hosting....

Any other good and simple to install blogging engines/opportunities?

Thank you,
Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:53 PM
Subject: Svar: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..


> Hi Shamil
>
> First, welcome back to AccessD!
> Then, I find this a very interesting topic with a lot of perspective.
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> shamil at users.mns.ru 18-08-05 1:28 >>>
> 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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