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Opinions on best Front End/ DB combo

  • 18-02-2014 10:33AM
    #1
    di11on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    I have an application that's built in Access/VBA. It consists of two main components - a database... to hold the data and a front end, to view/manipulate it.

    The database structure is quite generic and object oriented. The gui is database driven. There are class of objects which can be viewed using a treeview control. When an object is selected you can view/manipulate the data parameters that are defined against it. If I need new objects or classes of object, I just add rows to a table etc.

    The only drawback is that potential users need to have MSAccess installed. I'd like it to be a standalone application. Opensource would be even better. Perhaps there are pre-existing tools/packages that would work as a starting point?

    What are people's thoughts regarding alternative technology/language? With the following in mind:
    - I would like it to be stand alone (i.e. without the user having to install a MySQL server for example
    - If there are prebuilt libraries to do some/all of what I want - even better
    - Open source is good to minimise license fees etc.

    Thanks


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