jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Mar 17 16:31:12 CDT 2012
Thanks Shamil. Is this designed to perform this from a C# project, or from an Add-in from inside of Access? My concept at this moment is to build a little C# application to grab any Access database and export it out to text files and then pull the resulting text files into source control. My objective is simple: 1) To get Access FEs and libraries into source. 2) To have an environment where I can view differences between versions 3) To have an environment where I can "build" a specific version of an access container. It seems to me that doing that from inside of Access is inside out. I don't want to have to add in an add-in and get inside of Access to be able to do this, I want to have an application (C#) where I can browse versions, see differences between versions etc., and if I desire "build" a version of some Access object. I use libraries as well as my applications, and if I am on the outside looking in, then I can switch seamlessly between any Access container, whether an FE or a library, pull anything into source control, build anything out of source control. I can see where it would be useful to put changes to source from inside of Access as well. It seems problematic to pull changes from inside of Access given how compile errors could arise as modules change. I will be looking at your project though. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 3/17/2012 3:29 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Hi John -- > > But how DAO could help you to "export all the objects to text file"? > Except to enumerate all the objects but such an enumeration can be done another way using AccesObjects AFAIKR... > And except using DAO to export data and tabledefs but the latter can be more effectively(?) done using MS Access Application XML export feature... > So DAO is to be used just to enumerate and export User Defined Properties?... > > Have a look - http://accesspowertools.codeplex.com/ - a while ago there was rather active discussion in AccessD/some work done on "EatBloat" C# clone. > > You can borrow some sources from that "frozen" project if you'll find them useful.. > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil