[AccessD] Access Front-End via Web Enabled

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Wed Aug 13 22:10:34 CDT 2008


...lol ...good question ...Live Mail is giving me fits and I wound up 
sorting incorrectly :)
William
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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,  April 19, 2007


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From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:50 AM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
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
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