[AccessD] Access to VB.Net

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Can I assume that that VBA/VB will become deprecated 
in the short term and that vb.net is the way to go for the
future...
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Max,

Try to decide for yourself - nobody has a "crystal ball" - here are the
facts:
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"Office 2007 continues to use the legacy VBA engine. However, support for
VBA in Microsoft Office for Mac will be dropped with the release of version
12, in 2008"

Visual Basic for Applications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications

Discontinuation of the VBA Licensing Program
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ru-ru/isv/Bb190538.aspx

Howdy! What's up with VSA?
http://blogs.msdn.com/dr._ex/archive/2005/10/03/476435.aspx


Although VB6 and VBA will work OK on all the current MS operating systems
including Windows Vista, which is supposed to be here until year 2014?

Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on WindowsR VistaT
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx 

Therefore it's safe to develop applications on VB6 and VBA if you do not
have clear plans in software development for the time after year 2014 (I do
not have such plans for sure :) )...

But VB.NET is a more efficient development language and VS is more efficient
development platform than VB6 IDE/VBA IDE within MS Office Applications...

--
Shamil
 
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Thank you very much for all the good advice.
Arthur, do you know if this 2008 beta has the limitations that John
mentioned with stand-alone 2005 or does it provide the full functionality
that Visual Studio provides?  Also, would you have a URL for it?
So far then; definitely not vb 2005.

Also: Can I assume that (following the posting by Shamil) that VBA/VB will
become deprecated in the short term and that vb.net is the way to go for the
future (given that my current knowledge base is vba).

Also: Will vb.net give me the ability to make my apps 'net aware'.  By that
I mean, will I be able to make my databases available on-line without
needing ASP etc.

Thanks
Max