Re: Real-World Sample Application?

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Per Jim Rand:
Consider Microsoft Access as the scratch boat for writing data bound
business applications. My experience has been that if an application cost
$10,000 to write in MS Access, the same application would cost $30,000 to
$50,000 to write in VB 6. Why - data binding. In .NET, figure on around
$12,000 to $15,000 - not to shabby!

Those are interesting numbers bc the 1:3/1:5 ratio for VB6
matches up with my own experience when I rewrote a small MS
Access app using VB6. I got 1:3, but all the analysis/design
had already been done when I created the MS Access version.

If the 12-15 number holds up, I must be even more clueless than I
ever imagined about VB.NET, since I assume the back end in the
VB.NET app would be SQL Server and the back end in the MS Access
app would be JET.... and I know from experience that there's
about a 30% penalty when developing the same MS Access app with
SQL Server tables/stored procedures vs JET/Queries.

What I do really isn't MS Access development - it's more like RAD
development where MS Access is my tool of choice.

For several years now, I've been entertaining this fantasy that
if I could get a single real-world app wired in .NET, I could
transition over to using .NET as my tool of choice.

Your numbers seem to support that little fantasy.
--
PeteCresswell
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