[AccessD] Access 2007 Question

Hi Martin

Ouch, it certainly does. Looks like Access is approaching FileMaker. 
I'm out.

/gustav

>>> mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk 26-10-2009 17:35 >>>
This gives you a good idea of where macros are going

http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2009/07/28/meet-the-access-2010-macro-designer.aspx 


Martin


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust [cfoust at infostatsystems.com] 
Sent: 26 October 2009 16:22
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 Question

Access certainly used to have a wizard for converting macros to code,
but it didn't do a very good job, since it created obsolete code in the
process.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:39 PM
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