Julie Taylor
prosoft6 at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 16 14:15:59 CDT 2007
Great discussion! Please tell me more......if anyone else wants to chime in. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Webadmin - Tenbus Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:30 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled Looks like I chose the dark side ;-) When I wanted to develop dynamic website, I went for the PHP/MySQL option. There were two reasons: my hosting company offered these pre-installed and they are free ;-) Being open-source, there is an extensive amount of free help available on the 'net. I'm not a programer but found the migration from Access/VBA to MySql/PHP fairly painless. Regards Chris Foote Robert L. Stewart wrote: > Rocky, > > It is like MS Sql vs. MySql. They both do the same thing. > If you want to go the non-MS way, the dark side, you > use PHP, otherwise you stay in the light and use ASP. :-) > > For those of you wanting to use .Net and have much of the > functionality that Access has, take a look at Codesmith > Tools and the .NetTiers template for it. You can also > look at the Enterprise Library, which .NetTiers uses as > it's base. > > I can build a WinForms form in less than 10 minutes using > these tools. ASP.Net is a bit longer. But, it is a matter > of getting accustomed to using it. BTW, it generates C# > code. But, after compiling it, you can use the dlls in VB. > > Robert > > At 12:00 PM 8/16/2007, you wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:52:08 -0700 >> From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled >> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" >> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >> Message-ID: <004701c7e01d$673f17d0$0301a8c0 at HAL9005> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> At the risk of running afoul of a moderator: what's the difference between >> ASP and PHP in terms of when you would use each? (I'm thinking I should >> learn one of these.) >> >> TIA >> >> Rocky >> >> > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com