[AccessD] Visual Studio Express

"there is a per seat license for Access" jc

...there is zero MS license cost to the client if they use the runtime 
install.

William

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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:57 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual Studio Express

> I am with William on this one.  I have been working in Access (pre2k7) for 
> so long I can code with
> my eyes closed.  I have my framework, I have just so many years 
> experience, I cannot tell you that I
> can develop an app in C# anywhere close to as fast.  But is that a fair 
> comparison?  And the bottom
> line is that C# and .Net is in an entirely different league than Access 
> and VBA in terms of sheer
> capability, as well as stability.
>
> Potentially C# is entirely license cost free to the client.  Assuming that 
> I do not have to automate
> Excel or Word, there is zero license cost for my application, whereas 
> there is a per seat license
> for Access.
>
> C# and Access is simply not apples to apples.  It is more like an entire 
> box of every fruit you can
> think of to a single apple.  Throw in SQL Server Express, and DMO and 
> suddenly you have an M1 tank
> running over the apple that is Access.
>
> http://www.sqlteam.com/article/introduction-to-sql-dmo
>
> As William said so well, if it has to be quick and cheap, Access is still 
> King.  If it is going to
> be enterprise wide and the enterprise is more than 50 or so seats, or it 
> is ever going to need a web
> interface, or it is ever going to manage a huge database or (lots of other 
> places that Access is not
> a good fit)...
>
> I love Access, but I am learning a much more powerful tool, and C# / SQL 
> Server is a MUCH more
> powerful tool.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> Doug Steele wrote:
>> 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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