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Microsoft Access is showing its age. Most of the techniques (File Server, VBA, DAO, Jet Database Engine, etc) hark back 20 or more years. Microsoft will continue supporting VBA for many years to come, but the programming emphasis is rapidly changing in favour of Visual Basic.Net and SQL Server. For company administration systems, the combination of a VB.Net FrontEnd with an SQL Server BackEnd database is the ideal. Visual Basic is business rules oriented and SQL Server is efficient and easy to maintain. VB.Net Upgrade Conversion Reasons The reasons for an upgrade from Microsoft Access to Visual Basic.Net and an SQL Server database are: A strategic corporate decision A worry about the future of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) The difficulty and cost in supporting obsolete and error ridden code The difficulty and cost in supporting code written by amateurs without regard to standards The need to replace an inefficient administration system that just “grew like Topsy” The n...

The main disadvantage of the audio visual approach is that it does not encourage the students to continue to learn as the grade achieved serves as an end to the process. Many students taught by the audio visual approach despite getting high grades could not communicate or speak well. They may be able to write well but ‘good’ speech is not inherently something that they can do years afterward. The main drawback of the communicative language teaching approach is that it is commonly short- usually months only. It does not dwell on drilling; instead it covers the various ways of communication with contextualization, translation and speaking skills. During the study period, various role play and group projects may be used but if the student does not and cannot speak up then the approach may be considered to be unfruitful. Therefore the best approach may be a combination of both approaches. It can be tailored for younger students by being closer to the audio visual approach and th...