Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft® Office Access 2007 Development

Chapter 14. Exploiting the Power of Class Modules

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why This Chapter Is Important
• Object Orientation—An Introduction
• Creating and Using a Class Module
• Setting Values with Property Set
• Creating Multiple Class Instances
• Adding Code to the Initialize and Terminate Events
• Working with Enumerated Types
• Building Hierarchies of Classes
• Adding a Parent Property to Classes
• Using the Implements Keyword
• Working with Custom Collections
• Adding Your Own Events
• Practical Examples: Using Class Modules

Why This Chapter Is Important

Access 2007 offers two types of modules: Standard modules and Class modules. A Class module is similar to a Code module. The subroutines and functions in the Class module become the methods of the class. The Property ...