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MS Access Forum / General 1 / September 2004Access and VB.NET
Hi, I've always heard about using VB as a front end and Access an a backend. I've been trying to do this, its going but slow. Are there any good books that explain this indepth. I'll need to know about subforms and the such. Or is it better just to do it all in VB.NET? Thanks DS > Hi, > I've always heard about using VB as a front end and Access an a backend. > I've been trying to do this, its going but slow. Are there any good > books that explain this indepth. I'll need to know about subforms and > the such. Or is it better just to do it all in VB.NET? Thanks > DS I've been working extensively with .NET for a couple of years, and the one thing it lacks BIG TIME is decent reporting. Crystal Reports has got such a monumental glass jaw, not only with regard to licensing (in ASP.NET particularly) but also with deployment (DLL Hell returns with a vengeance). We have had such a sorry time trying to get our systems to work with crappy CR - every time I open up the lame designer, I lament that Microsoft didn't see fit to adapt or coerce the truly wonderful Access Report Designer into VB/VB.NET There are reasons to use VB.NET over Access FE/BE, but I can't think of many right now, and if you want decent reports it's a no-brainer (FWIW we even resorted to the desperate measure of automating Access as a server so that we could get a number of mission critical reports out, and that was a serious risk to take). Just my 0.02p Edward -- The reading group's reading group: http://www.bookgroup.org.uk >>Hi, >>I've always heard about using VB as a front end and Access an a backend. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > The reading group's reading group > http://www.bookgroup.org.uk Thanks for the feedback, although I haven't made it to the report part yet, I appreciate the input. PS anyway to hide the toolbar and the Titlebar in Access while the user is using Access? Also is there a command to trigger a cash drawer attached to an Epson Printer? Thank you. DS |
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