It's not. Access is an attempt by MS to put programming in the hands of the masses. As Dregan stated, people often get out into the deeper water and have to call someone into to save them. I'm presently converting two such apps to .Net that started as Access apps that got out of control.

So all this "Lightswitch" does is reinforce the notion that anyone can be a programmer.

I have a friend who's a dentist. We joke about him developing a Do-it-Yourself-Root-Canal kit.



>How is what you're saying any different from what we have now with Access and 10,000 line Excel macros?
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>>This whole thing is a terrible idea.
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>>1) There's going to be a whole slew of poorly designed and developed apps out there - AKA Maintenance nightmare
>>2) Template-driven?? Sounds like Yahoo Page Builder
>>3) Those of us who are proefessionals could loose work to someone who's got little to no experience just because they can put together an 'app' in much less time.
>>4) "... it constitutes an act of condescension toward domain-expert developers." I agree completely
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>>I'v got a bad feeling about this