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.