>>I'm proposing to develop an application in Visual Fox 5.0 and my client says they're adopting the entire Microsoft Office suite and why can't I do the app in Access???
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>>I NEED AMMO!!!
>>Please contribute any good technical reasons why VFox would be preferred over Access...
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>>Thanx a bunch!
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>>P.S. One concern (the usual) was, "Microsoft probably won't be going forward with VFox anyway..."
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>>HELP!
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>I have developed applications with the latest version of both. I feel VFP is superior from a developer's point of view. I also feel each has strengths over the other. End users like Access because of 1) marketing and 2) marketing. :-)
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>Here are some strengths and weaknesses which quickly come to mind:
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>Access strengths:
>- Query by form is inherent in forms' functionality
>- Less resource intensive during run time
>- Seems more durable during run time
>- Functions related to form's objects can be seen all at once
>- Exports to HTML, IDC, and ASP inherently (crudely)
>- Accepted by end user more readliy (probably because it is included in a software suite)
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>Access weaknesses:
>- Methodology limits experienced developers
>- Restricts creativity in creating solutions for end users
>- Major idiosyncrasies for developers (forced to learn to do things in complicated time consuming manners)
>- Properties do not appear alphabetically in properties window
>- Cannot change file structures of tables with data as easily as VFP
>- Relies on Visual Basic and Data Access Object for custom development and data access
>- Reach developmental threshhold quicker (less creatitivity can be used)
>- Can only open one project at a time
>- Apps take just as long to develop as VFP but end user expects a quick turn around because of marketing ploys
>- Menus are harder than VFP menus to work with
>- Object syntax reference is unclear (! vs. .)
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>VFP strengths
>- More control for the developer
>- True object oriented development with classes
>- Visual classes
>- Quicker app development time once a methodology is laid out
>- Quicker data access
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>VFP weaknesses
>- Resource intensive during run time
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>Richard Druckenmiller

You forget to say that Access will just not work for multiuser high-volume data application.