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Cheesysocks
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 Posted - 2011-04-11 : 08:34:08
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| Hi all.I work in a UK council and I have to store information in a database. (The info is data regarding graffiti removal.) I had a custom front end written, which allowed me to enter, store, examine, manipulate and report on individual jobs. This is now broken and the author unavailable.So, can you advise me on affordable (free?) software that I can use to create a custom front end? The data is stored on a council network. It needs to be usable by myself on the network, a contractor currently on the network but in the future maybe not, and to be viewed by outside organisations with read only rights.The failed system was written using javascript and web tech so it could be viewed from any browser.I know of Visual Studio, but I doubt they'll spend £709 on a copy for me. What else could do the job please?-- Regards, Mike. |
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robvolk
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 09:33:25
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| Visual Studio Express is free. Is your current web app written in .Net? Or do you want the new app in .Net anyway? |
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Cheesysocks
Starting Member
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 10:28:21
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| Hi Robvolk.I'm sorry to say I've never seen the code that she created for me so I don't know if it's .NET based. Our IT like to hold all that stuff away to stop us ruining their systems, the spoilsports!AS Express may have enough to get me going. I'll have to see if they'll allow me to play. I can't even install an update of Flash without IT doing it for me.Thanks.-- Regards, Mike. |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 10:30:51
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| If you need something quick just for internal office use, and you already have Microsoft Office, you can link to SQL Server tables and create forms and reports in Access. This won't help your external customers for web access though, and be wary of "temporary" Access solutions; they never are. |
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Database front end software. Reccomend?