This hands-on guide provides much-needed information and guidance for the Access power user or developer wanting to exploit the power of SQL Server. It provides readers with the practical knowledge they need to harness the enterprise-level power and scalability SQL Server offers, while using the Access tools with which they are more familiar.
With detailed technical information delivered straight from the Microsoft Office 2000 documentation team, this practical and precise guide offers hands-on detail for everything from planning and developing Office 2000 solutions, working with data, designing multiuser solutions, and distribution.
What Alison's book offers over most or all of the other books on the market is that Alison is able to take a highly technical topic and present it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. It is a book that the reader will often want to read from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference. The CD includes all source code from the book, sample databases, and complete applications.
How Far Can You Go with Access 2002? The answer depends on your knowledge of VBA programming. If you really want to get the most out of Access, the Access 2002 VBA Handbook is essential reading. If you are an experienced user of Access, you get the step-by-step instruction you need to be dramatically more productive. And if you are a more experienced developer, you get the advanced VBA programming skills you need to build the Access applications your users require. Coverage includes * Running queries to find specific records * Automating complex and time-consuming procedures * Importing data from existing data sources * Synchronizing forms and tables * Understanding the ADO and DAO models * Understanding the essentials of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) * Customizing the Access user interface * Creating procedures to change Access's default error-handling processes * Accessing data using OLE DB and ODBC * Creating VBA procedures for navigating a database or project * Writing VBA procedures using object properties and methods * Creating relationships between forms * Executing commands using SQL statements in VBA code * Using ActiveX controls in your VBA procedures
Access 2000 Power Programming gives many practical techniques for the corporate and independent developer. New features of Access 2000 are covered thoroughly and useful examples which will be implemented by programmers in their everyday applications. New topics include a chapter devoted to Data Pages, Microsoft's way of bringing the Web interface into everyday office solutions. Also, a new chapter clarifies the confusion over ADP/MDB and DAO/ADO, including when and where to use each. The book covers a number of new additions to VBA which developers will need good exposure to in order to take advantage of them.
Aimed at knowledgeable professionals, this guide is geared toward developers whose job is to maintain a business' fundamental applications using Office 2000. The CD-ROM contains third-party controls and development tools, along with the full source code of the many applications featured in the book.
Since the release of Windows 98, the Windows Script Host (WSH) has become increasingly popular as a tool for automating routine PC tasks to save time and effort. But finding resources for learning how to script with WSH has been a challenge -- until now. "Microsoft Windows Script Host 2.0 Developer's Guide" is the complete guide to automating routine Windows-based tasks by using Microsoft technologies. It covers all major features of Windows Script Host 2.0 and related topics, including how to access other automation objects and how to extend WSH features with custom ActiveX components.
“If you have any interest in writing .NET programs using Active Directory or ADAM, this is the book you want to read.” —Joe Richards, Microsoft MVP, directory services Identity and Access Management are rapidly gaining importance as key areas of practice in the IT industry, and directory services provide the fundamental building blocks that enable them. For enterprise developers struggling to build directory-enabled .NET applications, The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming will come as a welcome aid. Microsoft MVPs Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn have written a practical introduction to programming directory services, using both versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET Framework. The extensive examples in the book are in C#; a companion Web site includes both C# and Visual Basic source code and examples. Readers will Learn to create, rename, update, and delete objects in Active Directory and ADAM Learn to bind to and search directories effectively and efficiently Learn to read and write attributes of all types in the directory Learn to use directory services within ASP.NET applications Get concrete examples of common programming tasks such as managing Active Directory and ADAM users and groups, and performing authentication Experienced .NET developers—those building enterprise applications or simply interested in learning about directory services—will find that The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming unravels the complexities and helps them to avoid the common pitfalls that developers face.
What is this book about?Expert One-on-One Microsoft Access Application Development teaches Access developers best practices for building effective Access-based applications. The book is divided into three parts, each centered around a separate case application. The first shows best methods for building a relatively simple Access application using the developer's own data. The next section shows how to build a distributed application serving multiple clients and types of data. The chapters in this section cover each step in the application lifecycle " from gathering application requirements fro
"With MICROSOFT ACCESS Version 2002 CORE REFERENCE, developers learn how to quickly connect to structured data sources-and extend their solutions to the Web-with code and instruction, straight from the source. Highly regarded programming author Rick Dobson takes readers inside the enhanced capabilities of Access Version 2002, providing the expert guidance and rich, adaptable code samples they need to write, test, and debug extensible database applications faster and more intuitively than ever. The book covers ActiveX(r) Data Objects (ADO), ADO+, Microsoft SQL Server(tm), XML, and Web development in depth, using best practices and real-world examples to build comprehension and help expedite developer productivity. All the book's code appears on the companion CD-ROM so developers can study and reuse them for their own projects."--Publisher.
