VBA vs Visual Basic

[Bill]

Would it be better to use Visual Basic instead of VBA for Access
programming? Microsoft is giving VB (standard edition) away free
right now and I'm just wondering what the pros and cons are.

[Larry Linson]

Re: VBA vs Visual Basic

You can't "program Access" with VB... you can create VB applications that
access a Jet database (the default database installed and used by Access) or
VB applications that access a server database (for example, the desktop
version of Microsoft SQL Server -- MSDE -- that comes free with Access and
is an alternative to Jet).

But, if you are creating database applications to run under Windows, you'll
find that it is far and away easier and faster to do so in Access -- Access
is a database development product and an end-user interface to databases.

If you want to create web-based database applications, VB.NET (which would
certainly be what Microsoft is giving away, now, because the long since lost
interest in 'classic VB') would be a good bet.

Specific questions, with details, are the ones that get the best answers
here.

You don't "program Access databases in _either_ VBA or VB"... VBA is the
language that is built in to Access; VB and VB.NET are separate products.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP



"Bill" <williamgmoore@ cox.net> wrote in message
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> Would it be better to use Visual Basic instead of VBA for Access
> programming? Microsoft is giving VB (standard edition) away free
> right now and I'm just wondering what the pros and cons are.
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