Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Wed Aug 14 15:45:22 CDT 2013
For Silverlight desktop development and HTML 5 web application development MS LightSwitch seems a reasonable choice. Web apps can be hosted on many commercial windows hosting services at low cost. LightSwitch also can be used for rapid desktop development. Unfortunately it won't connect to an mdb/accdb as far as I can tell. Luke Chung at FMS has a couple of papers on LightSwitch relating it to Access Developers. See http://www.fmsinc.com/microsoftaccess/lightswitch/index.html and http://www.fmsinc.com/microsoftaccess/lightswitch/platform/index.html. For serious app development for all platforms Xamarin (http://xamarin.com/ ) seems like a good platform for C# conversant folks. None of these require ongoing licensing fees or hosting licenses and have reasonable purchase prices. I have only played a little with LightSwitch and not at all with Xarin. Just looking at options if we ever need to do app development. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:00 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2012 Development Arthur, I did download it, but I didn't feel inclined to learn yet another dialect of Basic, especially when I saw the price! Charlotte On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Arthur Fuller < <mailto:fuller.artful at gmail.com> fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote: > Regarding web development, I have abandoned everything Access and > switched entirely to Alpha Anywhere. It's so much more powerful and > flexible that there is no comparison. The XBasic programming is so > much more powerful than VBA it's ridiculous. From a web point of view > perhaps the most amazing thing is Write Once, Play Anywhere. The same > app will run on smart phones, tablets, and traditional web browsers. > It supports HTML5, Javascript and several others. It talks to every > conceivable back end. Its sample apps blow the doors off the few and > trivial samples offered with Access. I could go on, but instead I'll > just suggest that you download a copy of the trial version and take it > for a spin. Tell 'em I sent ya :) > > Arthur > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Carolyn Johnson < <mailto:cjlabs at att.net> cjlabs at att.net> wrote: > > > You can't open a 2000 version database in 2013? Uggh. That explains > > all the crashing. I have several databases that I've kept as 2000 > format > > because I still have users with it (well, maybe not now, but I still > > have > > 2003 users and I like 2000 better). > > > > I've had 3 people using 2013 that say the database won't open. Since I > > don't have 2013, I haven't been able to look at it yet. Sounds like I > > have the answer. And some work to do. > > > > > > Carolyn Johnson > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Charlotte Foust > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2012 Development > > > > > > Do you mean Access 2013, Arthur? I have it as part of Office 365. > > The big > > gotcha in it is that you can't convert open earlier than 2003 from > 2013. > > There are some new capabilities but for desktop type development, they > > aren't relevant, only if you're using sharepoint, building web apps, or > > using LightStream. > > > > Charlotte > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Arthur Fuller < > <mailto:fuller.artful at gmail.com> fuller.artful at gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Not much traffic here lately. Has anyone used Access 2012 for > > development? > > > IF so, does it offer much that 2007 and 2010 don't? > > > > > > -- > > > Arthur > > > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > > > > > Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. > > > -- Niels Bohr > > > -- > > > AccessD mailing list > > > <mailto:AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > <mailto:AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > <mailto:AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > -- > Arthur > -- > AccessD mailing list > <mailto:AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list <mailto:AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com <http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> http://www.databaseadvisors.com