August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
26h 24m
English
book
Professional Access 2013 Programming
by Teresa Hennig, Ben Clothier, George Hepworth, Dagi Yudovich
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16
Programming Using VBA, APIs, and Macros
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Using VBA to maximize your database solution
- Using enhanced query techniques
- Leveraging APIs from fundamentals through tips
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In this chapter, you will briefly review some VBA fundamentals before you delve into writing VBA procedures and user-defined functions to support your business rules. As you proceed, you will review how to enhance queries and how to create queries on the fly using VBA.
This chapter then provides a brief review of APIs and how you can use them to expand the reach of your Access solutions. The discussion uses a real-world example to explain the steps required to create and implement a Windows API call. It also includes valuable tips and techniques to assist developers already familiar with APIs.
Finally, the chapter reviews how data macros can offer new toolsets that can be effective for performing data validation and maintaining data integrity. You will see a few scenarios where data macros are superior to the traditional approach of using VBA in form events and validation rules.
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When developing an application, you rely on events to perform actions based on user actions. Some of the commonly used events are OnLoad ...
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