Re: VB Front End Access BackEnd

Paul Overway wrote:

The pros/cons in my view:

VB:

Pro
Control arrays/create controls at runtime
Lighter weight app...does not require msaccess retail/runtime
More ActiveX components available for use in your app...possibly richer UI

Con
Considerable additional cost to implement similar functionality to Access (if possible at all)
Report tools suck

Access

Pro
Robust data controls
Rapid development... in some cases, many orders of magnitude more so than VB...even if the VB developer is an expert
Report tools are excellent
If user has retail version of Access, they can create their own queries/reports pretty easily.
Con
See VB Pro

The biggest factor favoring Access in my mind is rapid development. The difference in cost to develop a given app is usually pretty huge.


Thanks, that was very informative. Ithink I'll stick with Access. I was thinking about VB because I Dongle that I bought and I might have to
use VB as a shell to house Access....(Make Sense?) Also I'd like to get rid of the Access Title Bar that is always there.
Thanks for the info and the response.
DS
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