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

Completely different kettle of fish.   That's llike asking how does C++ compare to Access.

While you *could* do anything in PB or C++ that you can do in Access with a great deal of 
effort,   they are complementary development tools rather than rivals.

-- 
Stuart


On 9 Oct 2011 at 10:41, Mark Simms wrote:

> 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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