[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

ROTFL.  

I have to believe though that you have forgotten your early days learning
Access, when all the millions of properties and events were so much Greek,
and you had no idea what an object model was, never mind how to find it or
how to interpret it.

I distinctly remember moving from procedural "start at the top (or with
Turbo Pascal - the bottom) and start executing" code to Event driven "how
can you ever know where the code is going to execute next".  I really got
into Access "full time" in 1994 and there was no internet.  There was no
Access Users Group, in fact I was on the BOD of the San Diego Users Group
sitting in on that first meeting singing "halleluiah" that I would finally
have someone to talk to about Access.  Once a month users group meetings.
There were very few books, and the ADH was waaaaay over my head.  

Yea sure, now that I have spent 10 years learning it, Access is indeed
"chocolates on the pillow".

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steven W. Erbach
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:06 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET


Dear Group,

For what it's worth, I've come up with a suitable metaphor to describe the
difference between writing an application in Microsoft Access and writing
that same application using .NET technologies.

Microsoft Access is like living in a luxury hotel with hot and cold running
chamber maids, laundry service, shoe shining service, room service, beds
made every day, carpet vacuumed every day, fresh flowers every day, fresh
linen, those nifty little soaps and bottles of shampoo, Magic Fingers
massage bed, chocolates on the pillow, and your favorite newspaper unfolded
to the financial page for you.

.NET is like clearing a wooded hillside to build a vacation cottage. But
first you have to learn how to operate a bulldozer to clear the woods. Then
you have to figure out for yourself the most efficient use of block and
tackle to haul the trees out of the way. Oh, did I mention that you have to
build a road to the site first? Then you need to stack the logs onto a truck
and drive it yourself to the sawmill so that you can saw the logs into
boards to use to build your house. You might want to learn how to smelt
metal so that you can make your own nails and hammer and such...

It ain't quite that bad but I've never had to buy so many reference books
and have them open at the same time.

Anybody else with a less florid description of .NET development?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


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