Beginning Access 2003 VBA - Denise M. Gosnell

VBA Visual Basic for Applications is built into various Microsoft®products, including Excel, Word, and Access. VBA enables you to add features to applications that multiply their functionality, and this book will show you how to extend your Access applications with VBA.

You will begin with the programming life cycle, the Visual Basic Editor environment, and essential programming concepts. You
ll move through object–oriented programming concepts, learn to retrieve and update data with ADO, use VBA to create reports programmatically, export Access data to various Web formats, and migrate an existing Access database to an Access project that uses SQL Server®. You
ll learn advanced topics such as working with external DLLs, handling security, creating transactions, and creating custom code libraries. You will also learn how to distribute your application, and using two case studies, you will apply these concepts to a project tracking application and a customer service application. These case studies illustrate some of the more advanced and impressive features your Access applications can include, such as generating e–mails programmatically.

What you will learn from this book

• Object–oriented programming techniques using VBA


• How to use built–in objects and create your own


• How to use ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to retrieve and update data


• Methods for creating reports and Web content from the database


• Techniques for integrating with Office applications


• How to build SQL Server solutions with Access projects

Who this book is for

This book is for Access users and programmers who have created databases that include tables, forms, and possibly macros. No prior experience with VBA is required.

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