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| About Us |
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| The VB Programmer is a southern New Jersey based firm established for the purpose of providing custom software application development, website design and development, database design, and related services to local, national, and international clients. The VB Programmer developers are experienced professionals that have worked with a variety of technologies in a variety of industries, including health care, estate planning, insurance, retail sales, construction, and the arts.
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| How We Got Our Name |
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| "Way back" in the mid-1990's, our president was working for a small consulting firm that serviced several departments of a major Philadelphia hospital. The majority of the work involved producing batch reports run in a mainframe environment and interactive PC applications developed in COBOL to run on the MS-DOS platform. Despite increasing client demand for Windows-based applications, his employer was resistant to change. Undaunted, he brought in his personal copy of Visual Basic (VB) 4.0 and began converting the existing MS-DOS based applications to Windows VB applications, as well as creating new Windows applications, much to the clients', and finally, his employer's, delight. Being that this was a small company, he was the only programmer working on Windows applications and was thus dubbed "the VB programmer". In later years, he worked for other companies with mixed computing environments (mainframe, UNIX, Windows, etc.) and thus became a "go to guy" of sorts for "all things VB", thereby reinforcing the monicker of "the VB programmer". Today, while Visual Basic application development remains our core competency, it is our mission to serve you with whatever tools and technologies are needed to complete your projects to your satisfaction. |
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| Areas of Expertise |
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Visual Basic Application Development |
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Visual Basic (VB) was introduced in the early 1990s and was the first visual development tool from Microsoft, empowering programmers at all levels of expertise to develop Windows applications with relative ease. With its ability work with relational databases and its ability to create attractive GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces), VB became the RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool of choice. The VB Programmer's Visual Basic application development efforts focus primarily on, but are not limited to, client/server as well as single-user database applications, using VB as a front-end against a variety of back-end database systems including MS-Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB/2. |
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Website Design and Development |
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In today's business environment, a presence on the web is not only advantageous but often expected. Whether you are looking for a basic brochure-style site to inform visitors about your business' goods or services, an e-commerce site that enables visitors to purchase your products on-line, or a data-driven web application, The VB Programmer can develop a professional website that suits your needs. |
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MS-Access Database Development |
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Since the early 1990s, MS-Access has been a powerful, practical yet inexpensive tool for individuals, small businesses, and corporate departments to manage their data. While creating an initial database application with MS-Access can be easy, things can get pretty complicated pretty quickly. The VB Programmer can assist you with your MS-Access database application in several ways, including developing a complete application from scratch, modifying existing code and UI elements, adding new forms, queries, reports, or modules, converting a legacy application to MS-Access, upsizing an MS-Access database to SQL Server or Oracle, or developing a new front-end. |
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MS-Office Automation and Integration |
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Many common and repetitive tasks using MS-Office applications can be automated through the use of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in that application itself, or by using a standard Visual Basic program as front-end. Automation saves time and reduces human error. For example, MS-Excel can be automated to connect to a database and display custom reports; MS-Word can be automated to perform document creation tasks such as generating form letters, labels, contracts, legal documents, and medical forms. The VB Programmer can integrate MS-Office application functionality into your VB and Access development projects. |
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Data Conversion |
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Converting data from one format to another is a common business need. The VB Programmer can assist you with any number of data conversion scenarios, including gathering data from disparate sources to form a new database structure, converting a leagacy database or file system to a more current format, building an export/import to get data from one system to another, "cleaning up" and/or parsing data that may reside in an Excel spreadsheet or text file to prepare it for importing into a formal database structure, and creating data transmissions in various formats (custom, EDI, XML, etc.). |
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Legacy Systems |
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The VB Programmer can assist you in converting systems that have been written in older development systems or programming languages, such as dBase, older versions of BASIC, and COBOL to a modern platform. COBOL is a particular area of expertise, as we have experience developing COBOL applications for mainframe and PC environments and have used IBM, MicroFocus, Ryan-McFarland, and CA/Realia products. |
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