[AccessD] ] Access 2007 Question - 2010 demo

I didn't watch the video, but I love Brice IT's comments :)

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Jack and Pat <drawbridgej at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Max et al,
>
> I just found this site after  reading thru some of the latest exchanges on
> Access 2007.
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Access/Microsoft-Access-2010-Demo/
>
> This is a 24 minute video, and a series of comments.
> Take a look at the comments from Brice IT......
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 Question
>
>> Now, when an Access 2010 application is published to the web,
>> it gets converted to stuff like HTML and Javascript and
>> SharePoint workflows.  How you going to do that with VBA?
>> Macros, based on XML, is going to work - VBA is not.  Simple as that.
>
> Steve - I don't quite understand the above.
> Why can't they translate much of the VBA by creating a Javascript library of
> functions and objects and then create a translator to convert the VBA code
> to Javascript ?
> They were able to translate VB6 to VB.NET, so why not VBA to Javascript
> and/or their new highly touted XAML ?
>
> I think an Access 2010 app ported to the 'net stripped of VBA will be mostly
> useless.
>
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