John McCawley wrote:
I have found myself somewhat trapped in a project where the software
being used is essentially set in stone, and its limitations are
strangling progress. It is a client-side app written in VB with an
Access backend, and it has no reasonable data
migration/synchronization ability. It was designed for a single user
system, and cannot even hook up to a different backend. I have no
confidence in the vendor's ability to fix this situation in a timely
fashion.
I guess I would recommend you to upgrade your VB application to either
vb.net or C#, then you can use the Postgresql .net data provider which
requires no additional client libraries.
This means you could write a nice compact application that would require
one exe and the .net data provider assembly.
http://npgsql.projects.postgresql.org/
Or you could use Turbo Delphi (http://www.turboexplorer.com/delphi)
along with a native client access library such as
PostgresDAC(http://www.microolap.com) or Zeos (http://www.zeoslib.net).
You could also use ASP.net to(with npgsql) create a nice web application.
For C# or vb.net, you don't need a M$ ide, you could use SharpDevelop
(http://www.icsharpcode.com/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx) which is excellent.
Hope this helps,
--
Tony Caduto
AM Software Design
http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
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