[AccessD] Old Dog - New Tricks

Rocky,

I wish I had advice for you.  This response is more in the form of a support group.

Hi, my name is Mark...MS Access saved my life...I love it...and now I don't know if I can still make money with it. (sob,sniff)

My point is I feel I'm in the same boat...I might not be as 'seasoned' as some of the others...but I think I see the writing on the wall as well...and its well past time for the next step.

You are not alone my friend.

Mark A. Matte


> From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:45:39 -0800
> Subject: [AccessD] Old Dog - New Tricks
>
> Dear List:
>
> I am trying to decide what to do when I grow up. Access is great but I
> think the market for indies like myself is declining and I'm thinking that I
> need to learn some new tricks. The question is just what to learn.
>
> I like developing small business applications - that's my strength. So that
> would be my target market. But what platform?
>
> I suppose whatever it is had better be web friendly. Everyone seems to want
> their databases and applications to reside on the web. Or, if local, run
> them in a browser.
>
> So what should I learn? VB.Net? ASP?
> I already have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition which I got at a
> Microsoft Launch and includes SQL Server 2005.
> I also have VB 2008 Express Edition and Visual Web Developer.
> I also have Front Page but that's been obsolete by Expressions which I can
> get from the Web.
>
> But I don't know how these different components relate. Is ASP part of
> Visual Studio? Is ASP to .NET as DAO is to Access? Can you deploy a .Net
> app to the web or do you use something like Expressions to do it? What
> should I learn?
>
> Maybe I can combine what I need to learn with a Microsoft tutorial that will
> get me back into the Partner Program.
>
> I'm a bit at sea here as you can tell. But assuming that I don't lay down
> and let the feeling pass, I think it's time to start taking a serious look
> at what I'm going to do for the next ten years. Probably a couple years past
> due, actually.
>
> Any advice/experience is of course, welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rocky
>
>
>
>
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