I'm deliberately posting this message in this group, so please don't
flame me....Does anyone have any experience with the training that
Microsoft offers for .NET? Our company plans to make the transition
from Access/VBA to .NET, so we are beginning to look into some
training possibilities. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you.
Vincent
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:00:35 -0800, Vincent
wrote:
I don't have specific experience with DotNet training, but in case
you're interested, there is a new exciting way to create hybrid
applications, in case you don't want to migrate the entire app all at
once. I posted about that recently. Here is a link:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.ms-access/brow se_thread/thread/78d8c3a80cca3cc1/c4c77f430c7402db?lnk=st&q= #c4c77f430c7402db
Informal training can be received from the MSDN website. Some of the
videos available there are very instructive.
-Tom.
>I'm deliberately posting this message in this group, so please don't
>flame me....Does anyone have any experience with the training that
>Microsoft offers for .NET? Our company plans to make the transition
>from Access/VBA to .NET, so we are beginning to look into some
>training possibilities. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you.
>
>Vincent
"Vincent"
news:1194656435.217900.167520@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com.. .
> I'm deliberately posting this message in this group, so please don't
> flame me....Does anyone have any experience with the training that
> Microsoft offers for .NET? Our company plans to make the transition
> from Access/VBA to .NET, so we are beginning to look into some
> training possibilities. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you.
Interesting. What is your company's reasoning?
Access is a superb RAD tool for normal business database applications for
individual, small-workgroups, or much larger client audiences running on a
single machine, LAN, or LAN/WAN in the last case. Dot Net is not so great
for what they rather disparagingly call "Windows Apps" and its primary
target is huge "enterprise applications" that are, at least, in large part
web-based. That's not like replacing a BMW with an Audi; it's more like
replacing a mini-van with a moving van.
I'd guess that someone's done a masterful job of obscuring the facts while
marketing an approach that will line their own pockets.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
"Larry Linson"
news:ss9Zi.56$763.48@trnddc07:
> I'd guess that someone's done a masterful job of obscuring the
> facts while marketing an approach that will line their own
> pockets.
It also aligns quite well with the usual IT agenda, which is to
stamp any innovation in application development that doesn't come
from them (and increase their budgets).
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
Three tier systems whereby the business knowledge (e.g. financial
calculations) is placed in a middle tier. Access still can server as the
GUI.
"Larry Linson"
news:ss9Zi.56$763.48@trnddc07...
>
> "Vincent"
> news:1194656435.217900.167520@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com.. .
>> I'm deliberately posting this message in this group, so please don't
>> flame me....Does anyone have any experience with the training that
>> Microsoft offers for .NET? Our company plans to make the transition
>> from Access/VBA to .NET, so we are beginning to look into some
>> training possibilities. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Interesting. What is your company's reasoning?
>
> Access is a superb RAD tool for normal business database applications for
> individual, small-workgroups, or much larger client audiences running on a
> single machine, LAN, or LAN/WAN in the last case. Dot Net is not so great
> for what they rather disparagingly call "Windows Apps" and its primary
> target is huge "enterprise applications" that are, at least, in large part
> web-based. That's not like replacing a BMW with an Audi; it's more like
> replacing a mini-van with a moving van.
>
> I'd guess that someone's done a masterful job of obscuring the facts while
> marketing an approach that will line their own pockets.
>
> Larry Linson
> Microsoft Access MVP
>
"Steve"
> Three tier systems whereby the business knowledge (e.g. financial
> calculations) is placed in a middle tier. Access still can server as the
> GUI.
The big advantage of Access is its extensive support for database
operations.
Using it as nothing more than a GUI generator probably will do little more
than make you the laughingstock of your "real developer" colleagues. Some
of us have had our laughs at the expense of those "real developers" when
they failed miserably to replace "sloppy, inexpensive" old "outmoded" Access
applications or clients.
Larry Linson