[AccessD] Learning .Net

hahaha!  yeah... Have to agree - nothing like a looming deadline and a grumpy client to get one motivated on these things.

As for VBA and Access - I feel MS Access 2007 is now seriously wounded as a development platform. Is is becoming just a ballsy spreadsheet with data integrity for power users - rather then the seriously useful beastie it was.

I think the future for what we do is much more SQL Server BE with ASP.Net browser based FE (coded in C# no less) - and I am busy learning those skills right now.  Yep, the learning curve seems steep, but I am confident it will be all worth it.  VBA is a dying language IMHO, I feel sad about that, but it seem to be true.

just my thoughts
Darryl.



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, 21 June 2009 5:21 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Learning .Net


The only problem with .Net is that a large bunch of guys/girls on this list
are old farts and after spending 20 odd years mastering MS Access, are slow
to learn new tricks.

The only way any us have become ASPX masters is not by paddling around in
the shallow end, it is by being thrown off the high driving at the deep end.
...and that usually required the intervention of a couple of burly gentlemen
accompanied with a lot of kicking and screaming. ;-)

Jim

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