Funny how MS Access gets people on the high horse. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 4:32 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted Just glad I didn't mention VBA comes in x64 as well in Office 2010 ; ) |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas |Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 6:26 PM |To: [email protected]; 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted | |True, Silky. | |All of the following is inherent in Bill McCarthy's 1-line post. | |The MS Access product still exists in 2010, and the push to use a different data |backend for MS Access long preceded the popularity of a 64-bit Windows. | |And the 32-bit ACE driver/provider replacement for Jet has been around for a |few years now - and works on WOW64. | |As the CSS SQL Server Engineers' blog article pointed out, Office 2010 will be |available in 64-bit, and a distributable 64-bit ACE driver/provider with it. | |Finally, there' a place for MS Access development, aside from creating a front- |end with a real coding environment and language :-) | |________________________________ | |Ian Thomas | |Victoria Park, Western Australia | | | |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |[email protected]] On Behalf Of silky |Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 3:35 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted | | | |On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Arjang Assadi <[email protected]> |wrote: | |> LOL, 64 bit jet engine, Apple should support Cuneiform on their tablets! | |> | |> With all due respect to original poster, this is not meant to be | |> having a go at anyone, please flame me if you wish, but I really have | |> to ask. | |> | |> Why wouldn't anyone use a VS2010 C# front end with (Sql Server | |> Express, ehhem sorry) Access Backend? Am I missing something? Have you | |> mentioned the idea to them? | | | |It can be argued that there are legitimate reasons to continue to use | |Access. It's not as simple as you may like to trivially replace it (it | |does things you've probably forgotten about). | | | | | |> Some (Development) tools are for UnDeveloping/UnderDevelopment. | |> | |> Kind Regards | |> | |> Arjang | | | |-- | |silky | | | | http://www.programmingbranch.com/
