[AccessD] 10 things I don't miss about Access

Mark Simms marksimms at verizon.net
Sun Oct 9 09:41:15 CDT 2011


Jim - What about Power Basic ? How does that stack-up relative to Access ?
I know they've been continually improving that product....so it's not dead,
But the user base must be very small.

>   But the data environment alone when working with forms is something
> Access developers would kill for.  Add to that the ability to compile into
a
> true .EXE, work with just about any 3rd party control, build COM objects
or
> DLL's, having unit testing capability, and being able to do n-tier
> designs,  and it made it quite attractive.  Microsoft unfortunately killed
it
> just as I was coming up to speed with it, so I was back to square one
looking
> for the next best thing.  I keep trying to get into VS, but I keep getting
> pulled back into Access.





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