[AccessD] VBExpress videos

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Jul 27 10:34:42 CDT 2005


I can't speak for anyone else, but for my personal projects, I just give
them a new front end for minor stuff.  Since my employer's product is
commercial, we either distribute a new CD or we put the latest installer
on our server for them to download.    The Wise installer is smart
enough to not install the runtime if it is already installed and
current.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Kath Pelletti [mailto:KP at sdsonline.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:57 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBExpress videos


...hhmmm....thinking over the pros and cons.....I am getting very tired
of clients changing office versions etc etc and having the app crash. 

And I am getting very sick of setting refs and finding that some users
end up with it missing - whoops - crash again. So runtime should solve
both those issues?

On the other hand, with my main client (using full Access install) I can
get straight on to their PC online using VNC, make a change to the mdb,
recreate the mde and post it to the network from where it gets
automatically downloaded the next time all users open it.

That would be much harder with runtime, wouldn't it? How do you
distribute upgrades?

Kath
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Hindman 
  To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 
  Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:15 PM
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBExpress videos


  ..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. Colby
    >> www.ColbyConsulting.com
    >>
    >> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
    >> http://folding.stanford.edu/
    >>
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