There are a number of great reasons why I wanted to learn .net: I envy the tools available: Microsoft is committed to providing .net developers with the greatest and sexiest development tools, every year they roll out new ones that make their jobs easier. Us Microsoft Access guys? We're stuck with t [...]
One of the major issues with DoCmd.OpenForm is it doesn't close the form before opening it again. This can lead to unexpected behavior of your application, so of course I created my own open form code:
I use SQL in my code a lot, I'm not a fan of creating queries and then referencing them in my code since users may delete or change them. Often I build SQL strings and then I need to debug them in the query Access grid, in the past I would get the value of my SQL string in the immediate window and [...]
The TempVars collection has the ability to save developers time, improve the reliability of your programming and provide you with new ways to share information across your application. TempVars were introduced starting in Access 2007 and represented a major addition to the arsenal of tools for profe [...]
When your're ready to publish your Access 2007 database to your clients network you will most likely encounter those pesky security dialog boxes. They can be easily taken care of by clicking through the trust center and adding trusted locations, but what if you need to deploy to a lot of PCs? Are you going to go to each one and labor throug all those dialog boxes? Read on to discover Microsoft's Access Developer Tools
Yahoo maps is great at mapping out a route you entered through the browser, but what if you need to map the addresses using a pre-defined route in Access? This tip will show you how to build the URL on the fly and then pass it along to the default browser on your PC. Note: for the same technique usi [...]
Google maps is great at mapping out a route you entered through the browser, but what if you need to map the addresses using a pre-defined route in Access? This tip will show you how to build the URL on the fly and then pass it along to the default browser on your PC. Here's the code: Private Sub cm [...]
Here's a bug you will come across when using a subform in datasheet view: "Property Not Found" Here is the code that will trigger the criptic message from Access: Private Sub MyField_BeforeUpdate(Cancel as Integer) if somecondition = True then Msgbox "Your message here, usually you can't save the re [...]
Sometimes you need the actual day name of the date and not the numeric equivalent, the following function will do that for you: Public Function MyWeekDayName(dteDate As Date) As String 'Will return "Monday", "Tuesday", etc. based on the date supplied MyWeekDayName = WeekdayName(WeekDay(dteDate), Fal [...]
Note: This is part three of a series of articles on Access Data Projects, Click to see Part 1 Click to see Part 2 Why I learned to love Microsoft Access Data Projects As a seasoned Access programmer, it seams all I do lately is Access with SQL Server, in part because of the great combination of SQL [...]
If your database contains an email field, you can easily modify your form so that users can single click to create an email in their default email program. First, modify the control's Display as Hyperlink property to Always, second, modify the control's on click event with the following code: If [...]