[AccessD] Access/SQL

Dan Waters dwaters at usinternet.com
Fri Nov 13 12:28:54 CST 2009


Doug & Jim & Charlotte,

Can you place comboboxes, checkboxes, etc. in the Grid View?  I believe that
the grid views I've seen were simply presenting data - like a spreadsheet.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 12:04 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access/SQL

Dan,

  A continuous form is only needed because you don't have grids in Access
and they don't have anywhere near the capabilities that a true grid control
does because of the way bound/unbound fields are handled.

  Of course the plus side of that is that they don't consume resources like
a grid does because of that.

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 12:16 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access/SQL

Doug - how do you set up a continuous form in VB.net?  I use these
extensively, and I bet almost all Access developers do too.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:22 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access/SQL

It's a bit nit picky, but based on my somewhat limited ASP.NET development
experience (one web/SQL based app)

1. No multi column comboxes.  True, but easy enough to work around.  I've
been moving away from multi column comboboxes in Access development anyway
as I find them fiddly to debug (and this is me debugging my own code).
2. No paging.  Gridviews page very nicely.
3. Different form types:  Huh? Gridviews, Formviews, detailsview in .net.
4. Labels that move with controls.  Who cares?  Half the time when I'm
working in Access I end up with unattached labels.

Again, based on my limited experience so far, it takes me at least 4X the
time to develop a screen in C# that it would in Access; but I've got 10+
years of Access experience and 100 or so hours of C#.  My fingers are
already developing .net habits and I know that in a year or so I'll be way
faster.

Doug

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

> Doug,
>
>  What would you not agree with?
>
>
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