How Making intranet page (web) for access data base

[Masoud]

Hello
I have made access data base for document management and now 8 people at our
office using that. Now i like to know what is the best way for making
intranet page (web) for using more than of 200 people. And which software i
have to know for transferring myself from mdb to web. now i know just mdb and
i don’t know how i have to start this job. Somebody told me you cannot do it
with access data base. Does it mean my database is useless and i have to
delete that and start another thing from zero? Please help.

 

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:42:01 -0700, Masoud

You can find a free version of Visual Studio Express Edition here:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
ASP.NET is a great platform for web applications. However, the
learning curve is steep. This is not a matter of a few wizards, click,
click and there is your webapp.
The database can be kept in Access, or be upsized to SQL Server. The
UI and the code will be re-implemented with your current app serving
as the design document.

If you follow Access news closely you may have picked up some hints
about future versions with new capabilities, but that won't help you
if you need this app soon.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[ryguy7272]

I concur with Tom. This is my take on the topic:

#1)
I've used this before:
http://www.hkvstore.com/aspreportmaker/

I think it cost $100. It works great with an MS Access back end. As the
developers states, the tool can be used with any 'ADO data source'.


#2)
If you are feeling really ambitious, you may want to try this:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

It is totally free and very powerful!! Only one reason would prevent me
from full recommending this as a solution...it take a bit of work to get
acquainted with web development with VWD. It really depends on your appetite
for these types of things, but I would think it will take a good year or so
to get very proficient with VWD. However, you can probably find some video
tutorials online (there are many) and join some discussion groups (there are
many) and buy some books (there are many) and get up to speed with some BASIC
things in maybe a few weeks or month or so.

HTH,
Ryan--