Introduction
Every programmer has a big dream "Programming without code". Practically a lot of database tools offer programming without code, the best two tools that I tried are Microsoft Access and PowerBuilder.
If you developed applications using Microsoft Access, you will realize that developing with Access is not as easy as you thought it would be at first sight. After you use the wizard and are happy with the generated application, you will realize that you do not have a menu or MDI forms. In addition, you cannot do many trivial things unless you change the normal flow of Access, for instance if you want to create a dropdown combo box and fill it with a certain value in filter form, you cannot do so and it is obvious that you cannot make a true .exe Application.
Rapid Application seems very powerful as long as it is driven in the normal way, and is hard to customize.
Power builder was another tool. It is much more powerful than Microsoft Access INMHO but, if you use a readymade library you have to understand it completely, because any customization means you need to override a function with a new one.
So the conclusion is, if you use a powerful programming tool (like ASP.NET, .NET Windows Forms, Delphi, C++ Builder (that is what I used)) with a powerful programming library to inherit and use, and you know how to enhance and override functions, it is the best solution.
Now here you are, that is .NET as a Rapid database tool.
I implemented this idea earlier in PowerBuilder with three levels of inheritance. It took three months to develop and once I finished it, it spread out very quickly and many companies used it.
So I can easily apply the same concept in .NET Application.
Just create the library and you will inherit and use it, and it automatically works fine and is more powerful and easy than Microsoft Access.
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