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    creating application advice

    Advice from anyone appreciated.

    Looking to build an application which will be using a database to read, write data... The application will be one where a customer would come in and the end user of application will enter details, generate reference numbers etc so that will be the database link which will be updated/edited etc...
    What would you suggest this be made on? VB6 and Access the best combo?


    What do you experts suggest the coding etc be done in?

    If there are any examples / websites / tutorials available please share

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    Re: creating application advice

    Unless you have a significant investment in VB6 already, you really shouldn't be using it for new applications. VB6 has been basically unsupported for years now and .NET has been around for 8 or nine years. For Windows development, you should really consider using VB.NET or C#, especially if you aren't already heavily invested in another language.

    As for the database, Access may well be OK. You might also consider using SQL Server Express, which is free, offers more features than Access and is barely more difficult to deploy. It does require a server to be installed but that can be done automatically by your installer.

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    Re: creating application advice

    will look into C# and vb.net, Dont have experience in any of these so would you think the Express version is ideal?
    Are there any open source etc for this type of work?

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    VB or C# Express will almost certainly do all you need to do to begin with.

    Open source what exactly? Do you mean development tools, application samples or something else?

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    Re: creating application advice

    thank you for your speedy response,
    Source codes, examples of where a vb app or c# has interacted with an access database etc, so pretty much actual source code edit file samples of this type of work, so I can open the application in edit mode and see how its been made with codes showing...

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    Re: creating application advice

    That's not open source. That's just examples. There are tons and tons of examples of data access in .NET around. You could start with the Database FAQ and Data Walkthroughs links in my signature.

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