Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft Access 2002 Desktop Development

Chapter 8. Objects, Properties, Methods, and Events Explained

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• Understanding Objects, Properties, Events, and Methods 308

• Using the Object Browser to Learn About Access’s Objects 313

• Referring to Objects 315

• Properties and Methods Made Easy 316

• Declaring and Assigning Object Variables 319

• Understanding the Differences Between Objects and Collections 320

• Passing Objects to Subroutines and Functions 322

• Determining the Type of a Control 323

• Special Properties That Refer to Objects 324

• Understanding Access’s Object Model 325

• New Access 2002 Properties 334

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Why This Chapter Is Important

Objects, properties, methods, and events are at the heart of all programming that you do within Microsoft Access. Without a strong ...