Migrating Access 2000 Applications to Intra/Internet

[Guest]

Hi,

I have some Access 2000 Applications that I want to make available over an
Intranet and the Internet. These applications are all Read/Write. My
research thus far shows that DAP is a problem if the client's systems aren't
configured with the right Microsoft products. I'm not sure how to proceed.
DAP is appealing becuase these are already Access applications.

Any suggestions? I'm starting a near zero knowledge base pertaining to
putting stuff on the Internet or an Intranet.

Thanks,
Larry

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

If you're free to choose where the apps will be hosted, choose a hosting
service that supports ASP.NET. If you need to use an existing server or
hosting service, talk to the admin people, find out what technologies they
support. There's no point learning ASP.NET and T-SQL only to find out that
your hosting service only supports PHP and MySQL.

Basically, you have to forget any notion of migrating an Access app to the
internet. You're not migrating anything, you're developing a new app, for a
new platform, using new technologies. It's not trivial. It is, however, a
lot of fun - if you enjoy that sort of thing!

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure I enjoy anything dealing with computers anymore - I think it
is because Microsoft uses the general public as one big betta testing sight.

But that's just the rantings of a guy that's been up since 2:00AM fixing a
bug that put his system on its back side.

Anyway - one more question - - - Will ASP.net allow read/write to the data
base by the User? I thought I had read somwhere that ASP was for read only
applications?

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

An ASP.NET page can be read-only or read-write - it's up to the developer.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help Brendan.. I'll use you advice.

BTW - All the wizards in Access just quit working again - - and I had to do
the 'regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\dao360.dll"
routine again. Bugs, everywhere - I hate bugs. I've got the latest Service
Pks installed on everything too.

Thanks again,