Re: Migrating Access apps to Microsoft.NET...

Hello!

Thanks for the info...!! And, so I'm interested in 'hearing' opinions on
why people feel that Access makes a better front-end than .NET (and because
I'm a Newbie, also i.e. Visual Basic/Visual C# Express, etc.)
applications...??

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Thanks!
Soddy


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

I think you'll find most of us feel Access makes a better front-end than
..Net applications.

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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
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"Soddy" <Soddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!

Brendan... Sorry for not a more pointed question... But Nikos answered
what
I was looking for... So, thanks alot for the responses!

What is your opinion of, i.e. Visual Basic Express, etc, in this
environment?

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Thanks!
Soddy


"Nikos Yannacopoulos" wrote:

Soddy,

If I understand your question correctly, what this says is, once you
have migrated your data to SQL server, you can move away from Access
altogether - that is, for the front end also. For the latter, you can
develop a new one using a .Net language such as VB.Net, for example.

There are merits to this (such as higher portability / no need for full
Access or Access runtime, much better protection of your app against the
prying eye, no more FE corruptions or need for compaction etc), but
"migrate" is really the understatement of the year here... it actually
requires you to re-make the front end from scratch, in an environment
that is quite different to Access, and more time-consuming to develop
in, with no re-usability from the existing Access app. If you really
need the advantages of .Net over Access, be prepared to invest serious
time in (a) learning a new programming tool and (b) developing!

HTH,
Nikos




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