Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Subject: Re: SQL Server 2008: Front-End Languages Followup-To: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:05:10 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="DD6dU+BfJNjsjSP4/K/V7w"; logging-data="18356"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/oD+zpQDKe8tFs/3+q6y5U" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YIPACqdLaSy+pKv1U88qA3jFzHE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:532 Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: > Enough playing in the guts. Now, I need to figure out which > language or language to use for front-end code. The system being > planned is for a small company, and the system must be easily > modifiable. > > What are your suggestions, and how does one get strated with your > suggestions? I don't think this is a topic for this forum really. But if you want a heated discussion there are lot of places where you can stick your nose in. Personally, it seems to me that the natural choice is .Net. Whether you use C# or VB .Net is secondary choice, although I prefer C# myself. You mentioned Access, and all my knowledge about Access are the questions I see from Access programmers in the SQL Server forums. As I understand it, Access is extremely good if you want something up and running quickly. But I wonder whether it is an environment you can grow in? .Net also has a strong point on RAD (Rapid Application Development) features, but it can also be used for big Enterprise multi-tier solutions. Then again, you have a background in FoxPro, and one my client has a big SQL Server application where lot of the client code is in FoxPro, even though if they are moving to .Net. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx