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VB.net (Visual Basic)Visual Basic .net is a programming language which can be used to created custom software systems. The ".net" bit means (amongst other things) that a host of great tools are available to the programmer and that the resulting program is easier to deploy and less likely to conflict with your other systems. It's possible to create a VB.net system with a Microsoft Access (?) or SQL (?) Server database at its heart. The database provides a good place to keep the data, the VB.net provides an excellent "front end" (screens etc). Even using an Access database, this solution does not necessarily require the users to have Microsoft Access on their PCs. They do need the ".net Framework", but that's available free (see Resources page)! This is often our preferred solution as, although things can take a little longer to develop than in Access alone, the resulting system is usually much better. Note that VB.net is not the same thing as VBA (?) or Visual Basic for Applications. |
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