Jürgen Welz
jwelz at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 11 11:16:07 CST 2006
Although I have no experience with VB Express, I dabbled a bit in VB6 a little while back and found that a lot of what you do with Access with subforms can be done with control arrays and grids. You don't get the automatic filtering of data in the grids, but if you work with single record recordsets and use just in time data retrieval for subforms in Access, the process is analagous in VB6. What I missed most in VB6 were the list and combo features you had in Access. Sure I wrote an autocomplete and not in list routine for VB combos (wasn't a property to be enabled), and multi column data mandated grids, but you were required to gain a modicum of control. In VB6 you could do more with drag and drop and you were required to do a bit more work but you had more control in exchange. I'm curious about the capabilities of VB Express controls. Ciao Jürgen Welz Edmonton, Alberta jwelz at hotmail.com >From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com> > >I've downloaded VB Express to get a look at the features. I've never >developed with VB before (just Access), and I remember reading that >subforms/subreports aren't available in VB. I looked through the list of >controls for forms, and didn't find any reference to subforms/subreports. > >Also, VB doesn't have a reporting feature like Access. SS 2005 has >Reporting Services, but SS Express doesn't. > >So, is the idea of using VB Express with SQL Server Express for business >applications not feasible? > >Does anyone have experience using these products yet? > >Dan