[AccessD] Access 2007 Question

I have no hard evidence, but I get the feeling microsoft would love VBA
to die off.  Sadly for Msoft, most of the world's financial institutions
(for better or worse) are powered largely by Excel and VBA.  And not
many of them are too keen on having to rebuild all those lovely VBA
based apps they have had singing along nicely now for years and years.

As for Access 2007, it seems to be largely dead as a development
platform and seemed to be designed for 'power users' rather than a dev
platform or base.  I really didn't enjoy using it and found it very
unpolished - maybe there are other who love it, but I haven't heard much
chatter leaning in that direction.

Maybe 2010 will be better and more friendly to the dev community?  Not
hopeful.  Given the power and flexibility of SQL Server Express and
Visual Studio/ASP.Net I am not sure it would even be worth focussing on
Access moving fwd.

Just my thoughts.

Darryl.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Monday, 26 October 2009 7:39 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Access 2007 Question

I have downloaded and built all the Access 2007 template apps. Every
single one of them does its magic with macros not with VBA. This begs
some
questions:

1. Does this indicate that developers are no longer welcome in the
Access community? How are we to read this, when even Northwind has been
translated to macros from VBA code?

2. Is there a wizard that converts a macro to VBA code? Or should I just
cut and paste the macro in question to the code window and then attempt
to translate it to VBA code?

3. Should we Access developers regard this as the definitive signal to
move to Visual Studio or some other dev platform? (Just about the only
thing that keeps me on Windows is Access; take away that and you may as
well call me an Ubuntu boy.)

Arthur
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