WCM said:
It is so easy and fast to create bound forms with useful bound controls.
These forms even work well when bound to sql server tables. Since Access
is
using ADO behind the scenes, why do developers consider undbound forms
superior to bound forms?
"Developers" do not consider unbound forms superior to bound forms, so there
is no answer to your question. A few users and developers, for their own
reasons, prefer unbound forms, but most users and developers, once they are
comfortable with the way Access works, find the speed and ease of creating
databases using bound forms to be a major advantage of using Access.
What do you mean "Access is using ADO behind the scenes"? Except in the
Access Project (ADP) Access interacts directly with the Jet database engine.
In your VBA code, with appropriate References set, you may use either ADO or
the more traditional DAO. DAO is the "native language" of the Jet database
engine. The Access development and support teams no longer recommend ADP as
preferred, even when using an SQL Server back end.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP