Choosing a Database Application Development Environment

#1

I have been involved in developing database applications on and off for
many years, starting with COBOL and proprietary SQL databases (the good
old days!) and more recently using Access.

In an attempt to avoid the difficulties in distributing Access
applications I recently experimented with Visual Basic as a front-end
but VB seems to have very disappointing database tools. For example
the data grids and data combos seem to require 'work-arounds' just to
get them to work.

Are there any other affordable development tools/languages with better
database tools that produce easily-distributable applications?

#2

<bayliss.david (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

In an attempt to avoid the difficulties in distributing Access
applications...

What difficulties are you having in distributing Access applications?

#3

bayliss.david (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

I have been involved in developing database applications on and off for
many years, starting with COBOL and proprietary SQL databases (the good
old days!) and more recently using Access.

In an attempt to avoid the difficulties in distributing Access
applications I recently experimented with Visual Basic as a front-end
but VB seems to have very disappointing database tools. For example
the data grids and data combos seem to require 'work-arounds' just to
get them to work.
You seem to be using the, now obsolete, Visual Basic "Classic". VB.Net

has a functional data grid.

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