Visual Basic for Applications articles
In one of our client's applications, we built an email template that sometimes may attach files to be sent out. Our client wanted a way to preview the attachment before they actually send the email. This created a dilemma - if they can preview and potentially edit the files, we certainly don't want [...]
Click image to learn more about the book On occasions, we have a need to zip files as part of our workflow within Access VBA. One sore point with zipping is that there's really no simple way to zip or unzip files without depending on a third-party utilities. When you think about it, it is quite od [...]
If you've ever asked Access to do a join between a local Access table and SQL Server table (which is called a heterogeneous join) you may have experienced first hand how slow it can be to process results. The situation could be vastly superior if you can afford to download the SQL table as a tempora [...]
As Juan may have mentioned earlier, I had been working with two other MVPs, Tim Runcie and George Hepworth in producing the first of its kind, a book dedicated to using Access with SharePoint. The book can be bought online at the Advsicon store. If you're wanting to learn more about the capabilities [...]
One advantage a SharePoint list has over any ODBC data source is that Access can disconnect and re-connect and synchronize the local edits back to the server fairly seamlessly. It also provides a friendly conflict resolution management, all out of the box. This is available whether you're using a tr [...]
This is part 2 in a multi-part series on Stored Procedures with Access, Part 1 can be found here and Part 3 here. In the first part of my guide I talked about using Pass Through queries as a convenient way to use Stored Procedures in Microsoft Access, in this second post I'm going to take it a step [...]
Use self-healing objects to avoid problems with objects not being initialized when running your code.
Learn to use temp tables in your Access code.
Learn how to order forms and reports dynamically using the open event.
Article describes how to import Outlook emails into Microsoft Access using code.
Batch transactions are a great way to avoid orphan records and to guarantee the database has performed all of the actions you have requested. This post will discuss how you can incorporate batch transactions in Access VBA using SQL Server. Why Batch? Normally you would use referential integrity and [...]
