[AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook

Wow...I can't wait for the conference this year.

Should we have arm wrestling or boxing matches...lol

I love this list!!!

Mark


>From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
>Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving"<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook
>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:15:47 -0700
>
>The difference is that libraries in managed code are compiled into a
>dll.  Once that happens, they are no longer available to be messed with
>by the curious, and they are true libraries, as opposed to mdbs with a
>different name and a breakable reference in the tools menu.
>
>You are willfully misinterpreting what I said in order to prove your
>point, but I've totally lost track of what the point was!  I'm not
>arguing that libraries are bad, so why are you arguing with me and what
>am I supposed to give up on??
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:56 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook
>
>Charlotte,
>
>A library is a group of code, the source stored (and more importantly
>MAINTAINED) in one location but used in more than one place.  Tell me
>how that is different?
>
>There is no foul here.  Access is the ONLY Office application that
>allows libraries but they are indeed libraries.  A group of code, stored
>and maintained in one location but used in more than one place.  Because
>they are stored in one location, you fix a bug one time, at that stored
>location, and then distribute the fix version to the other locations
>where the code is used.
>
>Now I understand that with a versioning system you can get into issues
>there but that is an intentional step that you take because you have a
>reason to have more than one branch of the code.
>
>And if an Access library (which they are called libraries inside of our
>programming environment) is not a library, how much more "not a library"
>is a "cut and paste" exercise?
>
>I am discussing a simple concept here, which you KNOW is "correct".  I
>did not make this up, I have no vested interest in you or anyone else
>using it.
>It is a concept taught and used throughout the industry.
>
>C'mon Charlotte, give it up.
>
>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
>Foust
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:38 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook
>
>FOUL!  Libraries in managed code aren't anything like Access libraries
>and you know it!  Grrrr
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:26 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook
>
> >And that my friends is why the .NET managed code libraries make a lot
> >of
>sense. :)
>
>Notice the use of the word LIBRARIES.
>
>
>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:53 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Inc. Sourcebook
>
>And that my friends is why the .NET managed code libraries make a lot of
>sense. :)
>
>Combine that with n-tier approach and the software development life
>cycle is less painful to manage.
>
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