[AccessD] Access and source control

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Gustav, Arthur et al --

It's a bit off-topic, sorry - a few questions:

Is there still demand on new classic i.e. .mdb/.accdb (not .adp and Access/SharePoint web apps) apps development?
Are there still real classic MS Access (corporate) apps running?
Are there still power-users creating classic MS Access apps to automate their business?

Thank you.

-- Shamil

>Friday, January 22, 2016 10:55 AM -05:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
>
>Gustav,
>
>I do the same, and I guess most or all of us do. And that's fine insofar as
>only one developer is working on a project at any given time. It would be
>nice to be able to have a team of developers working on a project, each
>member checking out a few objects and all other developers seeing that
>those have been checked out. You and I could thus work simultaneously on
>different aspects of Project X, then check our objects back in, and if
>anything screws up, then we could roll back just that object while
>preserving the changes that were successful.
>
>That's one of the many reasons that I'm so taken with Alpha Anywhere. It
>stores objects in a granular fashion; any given project might consist of
>hundreds of files of various types -- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, A5W
>(proprietary), text files, Xbasic modules and function libraries, and
>images. The core of the project is a database similar to the database
>window in older versions of Access, containing pointers to the actual files
>(stored in subdirectories of the project) rather than the files themselves.
>This setup makes proper version control a breeze, and ideal for project
>develoment by a team.
>
>/Arthur
>
>On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Gustav Brock < gustav at cactus.dk > wrote:
>
>> Hi Arthur
>>
>> Neither can I. And even if you could, it would be faster and safer to
>> restore the complete file from a zipped copy. That's what I do - zip a
>> backup whenever I have done - or plan to start - some major changes. The
>> zip gets the current timestamp as part of the filename. Takes very little
>> time.
>>
>> /gustav