Turning an Access project into a stand alone package

[Bakema]

Hi,

I have developed for my company a document management
programme in Access, which works well. I have now been
requested to find out if this can be compiled/converted
into a stand alone package, to be used in several offices
around the world.
I have been asked to give the proposed package a web-like
feel and behaviour, instead of a classical Access form
approach.
My question: how can this be done: where to start; what
programming language is best to use for this purpose; how
to store data etc
I am an autodidactic VBA programmer of a reasonable
standard with no experience in other languages. I have
looked at VB.NET, and believe I can probably master that,
but I have no idea what other alternatives there are, and
what the advantages and disadvantages of the various
options are.
Thanks for your advice

Bakema

 

[dennis]

The answer depends on how "web-like" you want it. Can you
create GUI data-entry forms and reports? Yes. Can you make
it look like a web-page? Not really. If you really want to
do that, you need to code your apps in Java (and use JSP as
the server-side language) or ASP. You can then (in ASP or
JSP) write SQL-style queries to populate your tables, or
extract data from them.

Hope that helps.

Dennis