[AccessD] Decompile

Ken,

I couldn't agree more.  It is a fragile platform with plenty of serious bugs, which is why it is so 
irritating when they devote an entire major revision and man years of development to pretty toolbars.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Kenneth Ismert wrote:
> 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