Access and Visual Studio

[David Polinger]

We have been using Access as a front end solution for SQL
Server, but are considering re-doing the front end in
Visual Studio .NET (likely in BASIC). Is there a way to
import the forms created in Access into a Visual Basic
project so that we do not have to re-create all of this
work from scratch?? If there is, can you give us
instructions how, or point us to some article or knowledge
base that can guide us? Thanks.

 

[Paul Overway]

There are tools of limited utility that will import Access applications to
VB 6. AFAIK, there are no tools for Visual Studio.

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

David,

There are products that purport to do these conversions; however, the
functional differences between Access forms and controls and those found in
VB and VB .Net are so vast that you will probably spend more time tweaking
to clean up the conversion than if you developed from scratch.