William Hindman
dejpolsys at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 24 22:15:51 CDT 2005
..yes ...lessons learned the hard way ...give a client full Access and "things" happen ...bad things ..."upgrade" that client to the newest version of Office Standard (w/runtime) rather than Office Pro and save them a lot of money ...its amazing how many strange happenings stop happening to your apps :( William ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kath Pelletti" <KP at sdsonline.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBExpress videos <<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 - does this mean that you ony distribute runtime apps? Kath ----- Original Message ----- From: William Hindman To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:08 PM 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. 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