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Programming Language to manipulate an Access Database


By quote, what is the appropiate language to manipulate an Access database?

A Windows user interface to manipulate an existing Access Database.

... and why?


Solution

  • Visual Basic .NET or C# would be my choice as there are enough objects and classes built-in to support create medium size database driven applications without writing much code :) objects in the OleDb namespace can be used to connect and insert/retrieve/update data in the database

    Here is a C# tutorial http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288452(VS.71).aspx