DS <bo******@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<yi******************@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.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
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
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