Jack and Pat
drawbridgej at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 26 11:34:28 CST 2008
I'm with you Rocky. Not sure what the next step should be, but will watch this forum to see what others suggest. Jack -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:46 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com