Hi, Louis.
Any idea if Access forms will ever have publishing support to ASP.net for
EW or VWD?
Extremely doubtful. Microsoft Access database applications (and their
objects, such as forms and reports) are designed for the rich desktop
platform. Web applications are designed for thin client platforms (i.e.,
Web browser-centric) which use minimal resources. Microsoft Access is not
the right tool for building thin client applications. Other tools abound
for building thin client applications, so there's no vacuum for Microsoft
Access to fill in data-driven Web applications.
Besides, the user-interactive requirements of Microsoft Office applications
make Web servers hang, so putting an Access form or some other Web
application component that requires Access to be running in the background
is only asking for trouble. The Web application needs to be completely
independent of the Access database application and merely connecting to its
tables as a data source at run time. Having Access create that Web
application or components of that application would put the limitations of
Access on that Web application, which doesn't make much sense. There are
far better tools for this.
Or are we, forever going to have to create tables and then do all the
front end and code to surround them in the not great for serious
application development environments of VWD and EW.
If you want a rich desktop environment for your serious software
applications, thin client development tools aren't going to get you there,
at least not with today's technology standards and the foreseeable future's.
HTH.
Gunny
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