Dan Waters
df.waters at comcast.net
Fri Aug 6 12:02:30 CDT 2010
I watched the whole presentation - about 53 minutes. LightSwitch (LS) looks like it's worth watching carefully. LS will be a part of VS 2010 - another option to create applications. This does look like it could easily be used to create a minor application by proficient departmental person. If it then needs to be significantly upgraded, a developer can easily take over since it's already in VS. This could be a business model for an independent VS developer, or it could work within a company. The point they made a few times was that good apps that would have been initially written in Access or Sharepoint by departmental personnel, won't then need to be completely rewritten in VS if/when the need arises. I'm in this exact situation with 2 of my customers now. >From MS's perspective, I think that they are looking for more Azure cloud usage, for which they receive recurring payment/profit, and they might get more people to begin using VS. Take a look at the presentation video - most of it is time spent in VS creating an app. Any thoughts? Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:31 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] .NET Access Replacement -- Was: Access doldrums?? Yes, we've got a "Silver Bullet" for you - Deedle Deedle Dee - dooooooooo.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gScly5LQc -- Shamil :) -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:39 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] .NET Access Replacement -- Was: Access doldrums?? Funny, the words are a little different, but the song is very, very familiar! <sigh> Charlotte Foust On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Kenneth Ismert <kismert at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> John Bartow: >> MS VS LightSwitch - another attempt at replacing Access? >> >> >> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-LightSwitch-15-Re >> asons-NonProgrammers-Should-Try-It-Out-321214/?kc=EWKNLEDP08052010A<http://w ww.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-LightSwitch-15-Re%0Aasons -NonProgrammers-Should-Try-It-Out-321214/?kc=EWKNLEDP08052010A> >> > > > Bingo! That's exactly what it is -- .NET, SQL Express BE, easy Table/Forms > building, and can scale out to the Cloud/Azure. > > It sounds exciting -- the only thing that could kill it would be onerous > platform or software licensing requirements. > > That's pretty close to what I was thinking about in an earlier post: > >> I would rather get rid of the 20 years of dreck and outdated thinking, and > come up >> with a radical, simple, modern database front-end app based on current > best practice. >> You could program the foundation in .NET, and let users script it in > JavaScript, the >> lingua franca of the Internet. >> Such an app, if well-conceived, could put a lot of .NET programmers > out-of-work ;) > > And indeed, the 'professionals' are complaining about the 'hobbyist' focus > of LightSwitch in the responses to this blog post: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/08/03/introducing-microsoft-visu al-studio-lightswitch.aspx > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com