F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming

Chapter 15. USING API CALLS TO EXTEND THE POWER OF ACCESS

IN THIS CHAPTER

• UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARIES

• EXAMINING THE SYNTAX FOR API CALLS

• FINDING API DECLARATIONS

• VIEWING THE POSSIBLE API CALLS

• CONSIDERING SOME ISSUES WHEN USING API CALLS

• LOOKING AT SOME EXAMPLES OF API CALLS

• DISPLAYING PERTINENT FOLDERS FROM WITHIN YOUR APPLICATION

• USING THE OPEN FILE DIALOG API CALL

API (application program interface) calls, sometimes also referred to as routines, are called from dynamic link libraries (.dll). These routines allow you to expand the power that Access already gives you in the VBA programming language.

One example of using an API call would be when you need to connect to a share on a network programmatically. Although you can't do this with VBA, ...