edit .mdb with microsoft visual studio?

[darksniper]

Is it possible, I have created an application in ms access 2k3 a while back, now I have to redu and implement more features, the thing is I pretty much forgot about ms access, and ms visial studio has more features.

 

[Banana]

I believe you could use it as a backend, but you can't use Access's forms or reports or have the same exposure to Access's inner working as you would have using VBA. But really, what's the point?

 

[darksniper]

in vb I can do much more sophisticated operations than in access, it is just I wanted to see if I can extend my application devellopment in vb from access, mostly forms. But oh well, i guess I have to do everething in access.

 

[Banana]

Yeah, that's the thing. Either go all Access or all VB. I wish there was a middle ground, but there isn't any, and anything in between will be quarter-assed.

Also, there's a misconception that Access's forms are same as VB forms. They're not. This is even true of VB6 forms. While Access may use VBA, which is close cousin (a brother, even) to VB6, the forms are anything *BUT* Windows forms that VB6 or VB.NET uses. This is why Access forms has double the numbers of events that isn't just available under VB's default forms.

 

[darksniper]

oh well, microsoft screwd us over!