Wayne Wengert wrote:
I am planning to convert a VB6/ADO application to VB.NET. In the VB6
app, the application builds an Access database and uses that as the
data store. The Access database usually has less than ten tables
(all the same structure) and each table usually has less than 50
rows. The tables have about 25 fields each.
In the new .NET version should I use XML instead of Access for the
data store? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
You could if you want I guess, If you drop access that's allways good
as you wont have a dependancy on a rather bulky .MDB file, but you'll
loose the power of SQL statements. I really guesss it depends on what
your doing with the data, if its just simple input output, display on
screen stuff XML would be a nicer option as it'll have nice little xml
files, and so on.
Also I don't really know that much about the XML set of objects in the
framework, there might be some nifty things of searching and stuff
(similar to SQL, but obviously not SQL).
Anyone got anything to add to this?
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Phil Price
Student at The University Of Hull
http://www.philprice.net http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk