Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 12:15:01 CDT 2010
I worked for a company that sold a large Access-based app, and Decompile was absolutely required to make it ready for distribution. But Decompile doesn't fix all issues. That was why I devoted so much time building a 'MDB Rebuild' app for them that recreated forms and reports control-by-control, property-by-property, and rebuilt code from scratch. It was the only way to get rid of bloating and performance issues in certain forms. This whole conversation reminds me of what a fragile, unstable platform Access is, and how miserable it is to use it for front-line development of really big projects. That is why I am so interested in alternatives like LightSwitch, or WASP/WAMP with PHP 5.3 and SQL Server. -Ken