Mark Porter
Mark.Porter at nana.com
Wed Aug 13 15:35:58 CDT 2008
If this is still an active question in some minds; I've recently been investigating Oracle Application Express and find it to be an extremely easy yet useful RAD tool for web based application development. It's included in Oracle's free desktop database and definitely worth checking out, even if you are just tinkering around. It's an easy pick for me because I'm in an Oracle environment and have zero .NET experience. Maybe not for everyone else. Mark Porter Sr. Technologist Nana Development Corp. Desk: 907-265-4156 Fax: 907-343-5656 -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:50 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled Hi William: One curious question comes to mind. How come the answer/question is showing up almost a year after it was originally sent???? Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:11 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled ...Asp was MS' first attempt at a web development language ...basically vb.script with a web interface ...I did my first web site in years using it because its a subset of vba, but it had(has) many limitations ...Asp.Net is the next generation MS web development platform but it has absolutely nothing in common with Asp except for the three letters ...its built on the MS dot.net platform and has an exhaustive suite of resources already built in ...using Visual Studio Web Developer 8 with Asp.net 3.5, it is a developer's dream ...the learning curve was not nearly as steep as I had feared and you can do far more with far less code because the underlying dot.net framework has so much built into it that you can just reference and go ...and with the free and very capable Express versions of VS8 and SqlServer, you can afford to invest the time and effort to learn the tools before actually ever having to buy anything. ...as I've said here before, all my new development work is being done in Visual Studio 8 because there is so much more you can do than in Access and, once past the learning curve, I think its at least as rad as Access ...Visual Studio is one of those rarest of software products that MS actually got right ...imnsho of course. William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:00 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled > Hi Rocky: > > Undoubtedly, late for this thread but they are both languages for building > web based applications. > > ASP was created by Microsoft and has much of the syntax of VBA so it is > very > easy to learn for all us access users... ASP.Net is ASP's next generation > and is much more powerful application with an extensive. > > PHP is an open-source web application development tool. It is extensive in > its features (it reminds me of old FoxPro with 5 to 10 ways to do > anything) > and is now the most used web application development tool out there. It > runs > happily on both Windows and Linux servers/stations > > PHP is also not difficult to learn but to really master can take a long > time. There is a huge supply of template applications for PHP out there. > Microsoft has provided an excellent development interface and there are a > host of sample applications which can be used as templates for your own > designs. > > To develop in either of these applications you have to have IIS or Apache > (I > do not know whether Apache and ASP.net play together) running on your > development station/server. It is then easy to install ASP.Net on that > station/server but if you have not installed PHP before you are really > going > to have to read that installation guide. I have both running off my > development server and have applications that use pages created with both. > > I like working with ASP.Net as it is accompanied with an excellent Visual > Application Development tool and is almost as user friendly as Access. But > like Access to really use it you have to be willing to get down and dirty. > > I could prattle on for a while but I believe the covers the high-lights. > > HTH > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at > Beach Access Software > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:52 AM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:57 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled > > You won't like the answer: ASP.Net > > Charlotte Foust > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Julie > Reardon-Taylor > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:20 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: [AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled > > Looking for some opinions on what people are using for a web-enabled > access > database. I have used replication for some applications, but would now > like > to move the front-end to a browser so that the input can be done via a web > page over a wireless connection. > > Have toyed with data access pages, but not sure if that is a good > solution. > > This application has three subform levels and the scripting may be an > issue > in DAP. > > Did I read a posting on AccessD at some point that DAP are going to be out > in the next version of Access? > > What are other people using as forms via the www? > > > > Julie Reardon > PRO-SOFT OF NY, INC. > 44 Public Square Suite #5 > Watertown, NY 13601 > Phone: 315.785.0319 > Fax: 315.785.0323 > www.pro-soft.net > NYS IT Services Contract CMT026A > NYS Certified Woman-Owned Business > > _________________________________________________________________ > Learn.Laugh.Share. 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