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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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DAO Objects and Members

The DAO object model includes the key objects listed in the following table. There are additional objects, but these cover the fundamentals of working with DAO. For information about the additional objects, see the DAO Help.

Object

Description

Database/Databases

The Database object represents an open database. The Databases collection contains all open databases.

DbEngine

Represents the Jet database engine. It is the top-level object in the DAO object model.

Document/Documents

The Document object represents information about an instance of a Microsoft Access object, such as a form or report. The Documents collection contains all the Document objects of the same type.

QueryDef/QueryDefs

The QueryDef object represents a Microsoft Access query. The QueryDefs collection contains all the queries in a database.

Recordset/Recordsets

The Recordset object represents a set of records from a table or query. The Recordsets collection contains all open recordsets in a database.

Descriptions of the members of these objects follow. Key members (shown in bold) are covered in the following reference sections.

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