[AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

Hi Arthur:

There is an heir-apparent to the ADP and it is ASP.Net 2.0. I was down at
Redmond in the Devscovery conference, a real three-ring circus... and I am
not kidding. Fairly significant demo apps, can be written in ASP.Net 2.0,
that connect to a full featured MS SQL 2003/Report-Writer or SQL Express,
that were created using its RAD interface that only had a couple lines of
manually enter coding.

There are full user login interfaces that actually add users across the
internet, take their email address, send a confirmation request, set-up an
automatic call-in receipt, additionally prompt with a graphic user input for
additional security. There are full digital-signed security controls and
many more state-of-the-art features like, ADO.Net with data formatted in XML
and standard formats, auto-synchronization (works similar to call-back) and
full distribution of static datasets. These features can all be generated by
just selecting from option lists through wizards. Anyone can create an
application with only a good understanding of where they want to go. As you
learn more the whole boiler-plated routines can be tricked up to the hilt.
It is all very impressive. Here is a URL to the trainers that gave the
presentation and demos to the group at the conference:
http://www.wintellect.com/training/courseofferings.aspx?courses=5&id=48

I do have a full list of all the demos and if you would be interested I can
send you them, off-line. I would suggest that you sign up to their on-line
newsletters as I have heard they can be quite helpful.

HTH
Jim 
    

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:21 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

I have no complaint with that route. As you may know, my treasured partner
Peter Brawley and I have described such a path (c.f.
www.artfulsoftware.com). But that is neither here nor there. The big problem
with that path is that there is nothing even close to Access that delivers
Linux apps (except as described in said e-book, using Access and the links
to MySQL -- what I want is something like an ADP that hooks directly to
MySQL. It isn't there. We tried in the aforementioned book to illustrate a
way to get there, but it doesn't offer the same intimacy. We tried and
delivered as best we could. But it isn't the same as ADP and there isn't a
lot that we can do about it).

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: September 28, 2005 7:50 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The future of Access, .NET and SQL

That is a rub; through the years I have become a master at Dbase and its
various iterations, Clipper, SuperBase, SmartWare, Advanced Revelation,
Pascal, Fortran, FoxBase/Pro, Angoss, Access, Clarion, C and a few other
miscellaneous environments.

...and another 3000 foot climb with dual pack-sacks and I keep thinking that
maybe I should have gone the open-source routine; Linux, Apache, MySQL and
PHP :-)  

Jim