Re: Access Application to Visual Studio

What i meant by powerful was "ease of use", if you notice in access, to
create a query you just need to select the tables graphically link them and
choose the fields you wish to appear.

Now with regards to reporting, in access, reports were just like form object
and could be easily be manipulated depending on the event of the report plus
of course to create a report was so simpe and easy. Question now is how do
you do that in Visual Studio?

A friend of mine says that Crystal Reports is used as the reporting tool for
Visual Studio, is it is as easy to use and as flexible as the reports in
Access?

"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Visual Studio is a set of tools for writing applications of any kind.
>
> > 1) Are the reporting capabilities of Visual Studio as powerful as it is in
> > Access?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "powerful." You can do much more with real
> programming (vs. extending an already-existing application, such as Access).
> You are completely unlimited. That said, you're not going to be able to
> throw together a report in next-to-no time, like you could with Access. The
> building blocks are much smaller, which is why you can do literally
> anything. However, as a result, you must use more of them, and know how to
> write an application besides. Remember, you use Visual Studio to write
> applications, not extend existing ones.
>
> > 2) Access has very powerful Queries, how are thess going to be done under
> > Visual Studio?
>
> There's that word "powerful" again. That's sales talk. A query is a query.
> Access understands SQL. That, and the various data connection technologies
> offered by Visual Studio.Net will enable you to write custom SQL commands in
> your app, using an OLE DB data connection.
>
> > 3) Visual Studio as per our understanding is a group programming languages
> > (VB, C#,C++, Web Forms), which is the appropriate path (programming
> > language)
> > to be used in conversion/re-development of our Access application?
>
> Visual Studio is no such thing. It is a development environment, which
> supports development in more than one language. What languages it supports
> depends upon the version of Visual Studio you are using. Visual Studio.Net
> is the latest, and it supports C#, VB.Net, JSharp, and several other managed
> languages, as well as C++ and C.
>
> What language is best? Well, what human langage is best for saying "Put this
> value into this variable?" Same answer.
>
> > 4) What are the required softwares for development under Visual Studio as
> > well as deployment of the application to the user (as in what is needed
> > from
> > both front-end and back-end).
>
> Visual Studio.Net is the only required software. Again, you're not extending
> Access; you're writing a new program.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> ..Net Developer
> What You Seek Is What You Get.
>
> "daniel" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5E9E7457-80D0-4EA2-877F-7A7695B7CACD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > We currently have an application running under MS Access (accessing SQL
> > Server) and we are planning to migrate/convert it using Visual Studion.
> >
> > Our worries are the following :
> > 1) Are the reporting capabilities of Visual Studio as powerful as it is in
> > Access?
> > 2) Access has very powerful Queries, how are thess going to be done under
> > Visual Studio?
> > 3) Visual Studio as per our understanding is a group programming languages
> > (VB, C#,C++, Web Forms), which is the appropriate path (programming
> > language)
> > to be used in conversion/re-development of our Access application?
> > 4) What are the required softwares for development under Visual Studio as
> > well as deployment of the application to the user (as in what is needed
> > from
> > both front-end and back-end).
> >
> >
>
>
>
.

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