[AccessD] Visual Studio Express (was: Treeview/ListviewOCXDisabled by MS)

...no and yes ...there is no way that I can put a VS app on the client's 
desk as fast as I can an Access app, at least I can't ...I'd say 3 times as 
long or more on an initial project ...BUT the VS app is a lot more stable 
and can do a slew of things Access flat out can't do or requires a ton of 
API coding or shelling to accomplish.

...if it has to be quick and cheap, then Access is still the tool of choice 
until I have a much larger library of VS apps built ...but if the client 
weighs reliability and flexibility over quick and cheap (I know, I know) 
...or wants real SQL Server speed and safety, then its VS ...and with what I 
hear re VS2010 the gap may be narrowing significantly even now.

...and consider that I've spent years getting up to speed on Access so that 
3x advantage over VS will almost certainly fall as I come up to speed 
(literally) in using VS ...my big plus with VS is that I can do so much with 
it that I can't with Access.

...other's experience will certainly differ

William

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From: "Doug Steele" <dbdoug at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 1:15 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual Studio Express (was: 
Treeview/ListviewOCXDisabled by MS)

> William, would you say that the time you now take to develop an app in VS 
> is
> comparable to the time you would have taken to develop the same app in
> Access?  I've done one small project this year in C# and it probably took 
> me
> five times as long as Access would have.  I realize that I will get faster
> with practice, but how much?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:47 AM, William Hindman <
> wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> gustav
>>
>> ...there are so many such goodies in VS that you can't even cover the
>> highlights in a single post.
>>
>> William
>>
>>
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