Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 11:35:06 CDT 2009
Mark Simms: > Since Access COULD become a RAD webdev tool, it would seem that MSFT should > at least permit a one-time conversion of existing forms and attendant VBA > code to ASP/Silverlight/Javascript/CSS. > If Microsoft does this right, and allows their Access web forms to be extensible by .NET, there should be a market for third-party tools to convert classic VBA forms. > >From that point, I could see a new HLL (high level language) in Access > taking over for more refined web development. ... > The old forms VBA-driven events model was great for its time, but it really is over-complex. Turning Access 10 macros into a simplified HLL with basic code structures and a simple, web-friendly event structure would do for web apps what the original Access did for desktop databases: make them approachable by newcomers. -Ken