[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Brett Barabash BBarabash at TappeConstruction.com
Fri Feb 18 11:10:23 CST 2005


For anyone contemplating VB6 or VB.NET for your development, the one
solid piece of advice that I can give you is to evaluate and purchase a
decent 3rd party control suite.

The built-in flexgrid, listbox and combobox controls just plain suck.
We own the ComponentOne ActiveX suite for VB6 and the Janus WinForms
suite for .NET, and I am amazed at the power and flexibility they
provide out of the box.

The TrueDBGrid (ComponentOne) and GridEx (Janus) controls have quite
nicely filled the continuous subform void for us without any fancy
programming.  A few lines of code, and my grid is bound directly to an
ADO data source.

(although I probably spent a week of programming time to write a class
to override ComponentOne's combobox functionality to act like the one in
Access.  No .Value property?  What the heck were these guys smoking!)


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:43 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?


Hi Steve:

There is not a big leap between Access and VB (not VB.Net). The main
problem is the lack of Subforms for POS and the biggy... a good report
generator.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brett
Barabash
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:09 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

1. VB.NET and VB6 development, SQL Server admin and development 2. Our
environment outgrew Access as a database, and we are moving towards
system designs where the data and business rules are maintained in
separate tiers.
3. I am employeed full-time at a rapidly growing construction company
(400+ employees) as the lead applications developer.  Literally watch
this company doub
 in size every 4 years.
4. Have a MS certification in SQL Server 6.5.

P.S. I would imagine that many people would be shocked to see that there
are VB developers on this list.  I started my career many years ago as
an Access 2.0 developer, and owe a portion of my success to this list.
I'm also a member of multiple VB lists (including dba-VB), but still
feel that this is the best source for technical info.

...and I can't stand the VB bigots who have never developed an Access
application and think that it's just a glorified spreadsheet for making
mini applications.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:05 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Dear Group,

Could you indulge me in a little survey?

1) What's your main line of work these days? Access development, SQL
Server administration/development, VB, ASP/ASP.NET, PHP...?

2) How does your work today differ from what you were doing a few years
ago? Is it only that you're using newer versions of the same tools, or
are you doing entirely different development work?

3) Are you independent or do you work for a company? If you work for a
company, what's the size of the company and where do you fit in?

4) Do you have any Microsoft Certifications? If so, do you keep current
with them, and/or have they made any difference in your current
position?

Thank you very much. I'm approaching a career crossroads with the
decision to stay in b ount of .NET knowledge (the hard way -- is there
any
other?) but I have no Microsoft certifications.

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI
www.swerbach.com
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