Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 1 14:32:35 CST 2012
I think it is time to move a real development team onto Access and use the Co-op students some place else. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson (VBACreations.Com) Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:42 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Make Access real again It's not already? I sometimes wonder what the career path at MS are for the people who spend time on MS Access development. Maybe it's not great and maybe that makes it unattractive to the best and brightest developers and consequently the application... is not, er, as wonderful as it could be. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:46 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Make Access real again True but I think my initial wish list are the very basics. Your requests are the real cream and we wouldn't want the new MS Access to be the very best application development platform out there would we? Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:12 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Make Access real again No Jim, much more than that. They've got to improve the IDE; purchase MzTools and SmartIndenter addins and integrate them, Improved cross referencing, etc. Build-in sort functionality into VBA. Remove form limitations. The list goes on and on.... > > Hi Mark: > > All Microsoft would have to do to make Access a real application again > is to > bundle and integrate Express SQL and the VS express, with it and create > a > migration path/product from VB to .Net and from MDB to SQL...and maybe > do > the same for Excel. > > Jim -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com