My MS Access Blog
Tips, tricks, best practices and more about Microsoft Office Access and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Links to great articles and posts around the web plus some things I've learned that I'd like to share.
Ran across this today: The world's largest collection of connection strings on the Internet.
If you want to use ADO you need connection strings. And if you want to access something outside your local Access database you may need to find the right syntax for the particular type of data you want to connect to. Carl Prothman has compiled sample connection strings for everything from Jet to AS/400 to MS Project to Oracle to.... You get the idea.
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Here's a great review of the differences between these two different libraries for accessing your database from code.
"DAO or ADO? Which should I use? This is a commonly asked question, especially in view of the changing development paths that Microsoft has taken over the last few years. Which is best for your application? The answer may not be as straightforward as you may think!"
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UtterAccess is the web's leading help forum for Microsoft Access. The community of Access enthusiaists who post there provide help to newbies and veterans alike, always in a friendly and supportive manner.
Access 2003 resource Centre on MSDN
Access Developer Portal on MSDN
Allen Browne's tips for Microsoft Access Allen Browne is one of the web's leading authorities on Access. Several of his articles are the standard reference for the topic at hand. Allen is also the most often cited cataloguer of Access bugs and the related work-arounds.
The Access Web This site, established way back in '98, features tips and solutions from several Access MVPs. The code samples posted here are always clean and effective. Often you won't find a lot of text, but you will find code that works. The solutions here are cited all over the web as the best way to get things done.
Stephen Lebans' site is the authority on the web for some types of solutions. It's a site every Access developer should know. You'll find tips, plus downloadable working solutions ranging from zooming images in and out, to disabling the mouse scroll wheel, to a calendar, to creating PDF files. In particular I look to Stephen's site first for advanced topics related to forms and reports, especially interacting with the Windows API.
