Fast-Paced Learning.
Intermediate Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
This is a practical, well-rounded look at Microsoft's popular visual and applications development tool. The authors cover familiar technologies like Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), while introducing you to new technologies like Data Access Pages. They then detail how Access 2000 has been improved with a more powerful database engine and with enhancements to promote productivity, programmability, object-oriented design, and client/server development. The book includes easy-to-understand discussions, figures, tips, code, and practical applications to help you master the robust feature set of Access 2000, as well as extend it with the power of custom programming.
The book shows you how to:
- Improve your applications development skills using a structured methodology
- Write your first Access program quickly and easily, even if you've never programmed in Access before
- Build Access programs using an object-oriented model
- Integrate VBA and SQL to enhance and interaction
- Build your own class modules to support custom application design
- and much, much more
The CD-ROM is packed with tools you can use right way:
- Databases, source code, and support files used to create the projects in each chapter
- SQL Station Coder
- Fragmentation Analyzer 2.1.1
- VBAdvantage 5
- Macromedia Shockwave, Flash, Director and Dreamweaver
