Re: Distributable Commercial Apps Access Vs Delphi

ThankYou all for the Great Comments:

Larry Linson
BTW, the Access 2007 runtime support (not yet available) will be free for
the download, so that's one issue that's solved if you move to Access 2007.

Albert Kallal
the .net is missing continues forms..and thus you have to resort to complex
coding as compared to simply drag and drop building of forms.
Further, there is no equivalent of sub-forms, and again that is a huge
design advantage. For example, I can display related table data, and build a
re-useable form that I drop into ANY form that displays the related customer
data. This approach takes NO code. In the .net environment, again you have
no equivalent.

Larry and Albert made comments that stand out in my mind. I was
leaning toward .Net, and I guess I will look into it just to get an
idea of what it is all about. But, maybe the 2007 (Free) runtime
support will be what it takes to stay the course. Unless, the Runtime
conflict issues mentioned become a problem. MS needs to address this,
if it does in-fact exist! Also, I was thinking about Access on the FE
and SQL Server (some variation) on the BE for data security. But, I'm
not sure if that combination will play well with the Runtime???

ThankYou all for the Great Comments:
Greg

** RunTime Problems:

The main key to successfully using the runtime is to NOT install it on PCs that
already have Access installed. If you adhere to that rule then there really are
no significant problems.

I'm making my life easier avoiding runtime distribution as much as possible though I > too have not looked at the (now free) 2007 runtime environment so take my
comments fwiw.


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