Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft® Office Access 2007 Development

Chapter 29. Documenting Your Application

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why This Chapter Is Important
• Preparing Your Application to Be Self-Documenting
• Using the Database Documenter
• Using the Object Dependency Feature
• Writing Code to Create Your Own Documentation
• Practical Examples: Applying What You Learned

Why This Chapter Is Important

Back in the days of mainframes and very formal centralized management information systems (MIS) departments, documentation was a mandatory requirement for the completion of an application. Today, it seems as though all types of people are developing applications: administrative assistants, CEOs, sales managers, MIS professionals, and so on. To make matters worse, many of us who consider ourselves MIS professionals never received ...