[AccessD] VBExpress videos

VS Tools comes with a standard version of VB.Net.  VBExpress is supposed
to be the answer to the cry, "why can't you make it easier for
non-developers to use?"  To me that is utter nonsense, since no one but
a developer can make effective use of it anyhow! <grumble>

All the tools that were in the previous developers editions of Office
(or the ADT for an earlier version of Access) are in VS Tools now,
including the packaging wizard and the Access runtime.  If you are
developing Access 2003 apps and want to distribute the runtime, you need
VS Tools, not VBExpress.


Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: William Hindman [mailto:dejpolsys at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:09 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBExpress videos


..thanks JC, I'll dl the videos and have a look then ...tap dancing
around 
VB.net whenever I'm bored with everything else going on ...the VB name
is 
similar but the ide keeps throwing me for a loop and nothing ports
cleanly, 
at least for me ...but I admit to getting old :)

..as for the VS Tools, how does anyone that actually supports
distributed 
Access based apps get by without it? ...that would mean clients having
full 
Access installs and all the troubles that implies ...I'd rather starve
first 
:(

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] VBExpress videos


> William,
>
> Apparently Express is a simplified version of the one that comes in 
> the Visual Studio.  As for the videos being useful, I think mostly 
> yes.  The videos are about how to manipulate the various windows, the 
> controls, the forms etc.  All that is pretty much just like the 
> version in Visual Studio.
>
> My email was aimed at those lost souls (like myself) who either have 
> never managed to really "get there" with Visual Studio, or never even 
> purchased it because of the expense.  VBExpress is free (for the beta 
> which is very
> stable) and will be $50 when released at the end of the year.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William 
> Hindman
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:57 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBExpress videos
>
>
> JC
>
> ..how is this different than the VB.Net that comes with Visual Studio 
> Tools? ...since MS compels me to pay for the standard version of 
> VB.net in order to get the equivalent of the old ODE, why might I want

> to go the VBExpress route instead?
>
> ..and are the videos of use in the VB.net ide?
>
> William
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "VBA" <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>; "AccessD"
> <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:50 PM
> Subject: [AccessD] VBExpress videos
>
>
>> In case you haven't found them, there is a beta available for 
>> VBExpress which is really just VB.Net light version, with its own IDE

>> instead of being embedded in Visual Studio.  The IDE looks and feels 
>> almost identical to the Visual Studio however.
>>
>> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/beginner/
>>
>> Once you download and install the VBExpress notice the videos 
>> available. I
>> discovered this guy a couple of years ago but he has now done (some)
>> videos
>> for this VBExpress and I am finding them very useful  I think they
would
>> allow anyone who frequents this board to get up to speed pretty
quickly,
>> and
>> I have to tell you, VBExpress.net is waaay cool.  The videos will
show 
>> you
>> how to do stuff in the user interface (all that I have gotten to so
far)
>> that we can only dream of in VBA.
>>
>> Check it out - it looks very good to me.  I am working through the 
>> video series right now.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
>> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>>
>>
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