MS Access Desktop Development - Future Direction

Question

I am a aspiring Access developer who has enjoyed using it primarily for desktop applications.....however, my brother (who is heavy into website develoment)
has stated that the future of DB development is now primarily in the realm of internet application development.   Having said this, can anyone who develops with Access give me some feedback regarding the future direction of desktop development with it......keep in mind I do have an interest in the internet application aspects for DB development and web commerce.....however, I find it hard to believe that the future of DB desktop application development is
completely going away.

Also, can anyone help me regarding converting/updating Access add-ins from earlier versions to newer versions.

My sincerest thanks in advance to anyone who can help me!

Best regards,

John Musser

Answer 1

Hi John

Wonder if you got any responses to your question.

I have been developing Access application for about ten years - but made a break a few years ago and now would like to return to the field and therefore investigate various options. The future of Access is certainly an open question as MS has essentially migrated the backend data operation to SQL Server. Access seems to be best suited to prototyping database structures (Schma) and to build front end interface for SQL Server.

Did you try to downloas the new MS VB2010 ? .Net application seems to be the way to go for future programing...

Let me know
best
mc