[AccessD] Visual Studio Express

True.  Of course then I have to come up to speed on 2007.

;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


William Hindman wrote:
> "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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