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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 465490" data-attributes="member: 29446"><p>Access is a whole 'nother boat. If you look at MS Office for mac, it comes with every thing except Access. That's because Access uses the .NET framework and uses references from different programs and Windows OS's. Essentially, you can make a database do what ever you want with forms and such. It's almost like a minature Visual Studio, but geared towards databases. You can even make forms that call information from any file on the hard drive, other Office apps, or uses part of Window's like file dialof boxes and such. You can use Access as just a database program, but with all the underlying architecture, there's no way of running it on OS X as a full app unless either .NET and everything else gets transfered to OS X or you're running it through an emulated Windows OS.</p><p></p><p>Not a Mac vs. PC things...just a program that will never be ported to OS X because of the way it's built thing.</p><p></p><p>But if I'm right in thinking this, you're probably not going to get into using Access as much more than a DB unless you're taking something that focus on that specific Aspect. It's mainly, learn C then apply it to VB and other programs afterwards...that's how some of the Colleges around here operate...</p><p></p><p>Edit: I do DB programming at work. So, Access is one of the programs that sits open on my desktop for 95% of my day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 465490, member: 29446"] Access is a whole 'nother boat. If you look at MS Office for mac, it comes with every thing except Access. That's because Access uses the .NET framework and uses references from different programs and Windows OS's. Essentially, you can make a database do what ever you want with forms and such. It's almost like a minature Visual Studio, but geared towards databases. You can even make forms that call information from any file on the hard drive, other Office apps, or uses part of Window's like file dialof boxes and such. You can use Access as just a database program, but with all the underlying architecture, there's no way of running it on OS X as a full app unless either .NET and everything else gets transfered to OS X or you're running it through an emulated Windows OS. Not a Mac vs. PC things...just a program that will never be ported to OS X because of the way it's built thing. But if I'm right in thinking this, you're probably not going to get into using Access as much more than a DB unless you're taking something that focus on that specific Aspect. It's mainly, learn C then apply it to VB and other programs afterwards...that's how some of the Colleges around here operate... Edit: I do DB programming at work. So, Access is one of the programs that sits open on my desktop for 95% of my day. [/QUOTE]
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