Access 2003 Power Programming with VBA

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Summary: Solid Introduction to VBA
Review: Here is a solid introduction to programming in Access, including how to use some of the built-in features that make VBA easier to use. If you've been using Access to make forms and run quieries you should be able to pick up this book and start programming. Power Programming tells you how to create procedures and functions. The code isn't very useful by itself, but the book explains how things work so you should be able to write your own procedures.

You can learn how to customize menus using built-in dialog boxes or build them programmatically (pretty useful.) There is a long chapter on database connectivity and there is about twenty pages about XML support. There's also a couple of pages about Access backwards compatability (or lack of!)

There isn't a CD with the book and I keep trying to find a place in the book that gives a website with the code. It would be helpful to have the code available for cutting and pasting since it's so easy to make a typo.

If you are an expereienced VBA programmer, You probably want to find another book. I was looking for a book that would help me transition from Access 2000 to Access 2003. This book does not do that. I wish I had read the editiorial review more closely especially the part that says "a resource for programmers (particularly novice ones)" Another good quote from the editorial review is "the odds are small that you'll get all the information you need out of this book, unless the application you want to write is super-simple." But then you can never get everyting out of one book anyway.

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Summary: Best Book for Programming Access
Review: This is the best book I have found for VBA programming I have found. It provided answers to a lot of my questions that I couldn't find in other books.

Rating:
Summary: Best Book for Programming Access
Review: This is the best book I have found for VBA programming I have found. It provided answers to a lot of my questions that I couldn't find in other books.

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Summary: Best Book on Access Programming
Review: This is the best book I have found for VBA programming on Microsoft Access.