Re: RealBasic for an Access Front End?

Larry,

Thanks for the interesting response.

To answer your question re. using Access as a front end, since
programming in Access is dependent upon VBA....MSFT - fool me once
shame on you....fool me twice - No (expletive) way!

I can't migrate away from their OS (I would if I were 25 years
younger) but I can migrate away from their programming tools.

Dave




On Aug 21, 10:53 pm, "Larry Linson" <boun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave,

When people say "Access databases" as a back end, they almost always mean
"Jet databases". Most of us with experience with both classic VB and Access
have found that for "front ends" intended for individual users, and
modest-sized workgroups, Access is better than classic VB, in terms of time
and effort required to create the same front end, the UI is as friendly, and
performance is limited by the data retrieval not the front-end, in both
cases.

REALBasic, from what I hear, is a good product, but it is not an
event-driven, code-snippet environment like classic VB and Access.

I am wondering why you aren't considering Access as the front-end.

And, given that DAO is the native language of the Jet DB engine, why you
would want to use ADO? ADO was strongly over-hyped by Microsoft, but was
never "better" for Jet. ADO has, as I'm sure you know, been superceded in
Microsoft's own view of "real professional software development" by ADO.NET
which is built on a different object model and shares little with "classic"
ADO except part of its name.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP (and Classic VB developer)


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: RealBasic for an Access Front End?
    ... When people say "Access databases" as a back end, ... "Jet databases". ... ADO was strongly over-hyped by Microsoft, ... Microsoft's own view of "real professional software development" by ADO.NET ...
    (comp.databases.ms-access)
  • Re: [Access2003, VBA] Use DAO or ADO?
    ... One of the reasons my clients preferred Access / Jet / ODBC was that they ... Autonumber or its server equivalent and could have been shown to the users ... real world of development, Dot Net", ADO has been superceded by ADO.NET ...
    (comp.databases.ms-access)
  • Re: How to enforce subtypes/supertypes in Access 2000?
    ... DAO is the native object model for Jet databases and, as such, is the ... ever need ADO. ... Private Sub SetContactType() ...
    (microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign)
  • Re: Use DAO or ADO?
    ... tables to a jet backend to open a ado recordset. ... will ALSO work for mysql, oracle and sql server if I take that sql ... engine that they don't understand who want to avoid Jet at all ...
    (comp.databases.ms-access)
  • Re: [Access2003, VBA] Use DAO or ADO?
    ... to a jet backend to open a ado recordset. ... Because one might have chosen to use ado in place dao in their application. ... You gain sql neutral code. ...
    (comp.databases.ms-access)