VB6 to Access 2007 VBA

[syswizard]

I HEAR YOU.
Unfortunately, the choir "attendance" is few.
Incredibly, you would think the Indian outsourcing competition would have boosted attendance. I fear it has not.
Instead, the few who do attend, do not listen to the "gospel".

 

[Simon_MT]

Syswizard,

I would ignore the issue of .NET at the moment, that can come later. Only issue with Access 97 is a little memory hungry whilst later versions are more efficient.

I understand that MS maybe inventing the wheel again with something else to replace .NET however I would recommend to review your applications once Windows 7 is fully released. It's probably like the transition from Windows 3.2 to Windows 97, it was worth the pain.

Simon

 

[syswizard]

Well, let me say right off that I don't agree with you on both accounts:
1) Ignore dot-net
It's impossible....it's pervasive, it's everywhere. Interestingly, I just contacted one of MSFT's Dynamics CRM partners and got a rough ballpark estimate of the rewrite that was 3x my estimate for the rewrite in AC2k7. Their billing rate was $175/hr !

2) dot-net being replaced
I think this might have been a joke, right ? What's coming up from MSFT is the new Azure framework which is a web-dev tool that supports Silverlight. It uses the dot-net framework to support apps written for the cloud computing environment. I believe much of the code generated is Javascript along with ASP.NET.
Interesting article here and indicates just how nascient this technology is:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Delivers-Windows-Azure-SDK-Tools-Refresh/

 

[Simon_MT]

I agree, but writing web based applications like .Net applications or Classic asp is a totally different ball game and it takes time to grasp the environment.

Simon