Programming Microsoft Access 2003: Hands-On - Building Database Applications with Access and VBA

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You will learn how to

• Develop applications with Microsoft Access 2003 using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
• Identify and populate event properties to satisfy design specifications
• Modify object properties and invoke object methods to customize applications
• Create VBA statements using variables and built-in functions
• Build loops and decision logic
• Apply Data Access Objects (DAO) to incorporate business rules
• Integrate Access with external applications through automation

Course benefits
With the advanced capabilities of VBA, you can fully exploit the power of Microsoft Access. Using rapid application development techniques, you can build applications that increase productivity.

In this hands-on course, you gain practical experience programming with VBA. You learn to write and debug code that incorporates business rules with Access objects.

Who should attend
This Course benefits those planning to create business solutions with Microsoft Access 2003 or a prior version of Access. Course 307, "Microsoft Access 2003 Introduction," or similar experience is assumed. Programming experience is useful, but not required.

Hands-on training
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience programming Access using a variety of tools and techniques. Exercises include:

• Adapting business requirements into VBA code
• Exploiting Forms and controls by manipulating properties and executing methods
• Empowering your code using built-in functions
• Incorporating logic and iteration statements
• Programming Data Access Objects to manipulate data at the code level
• Creating multiple copies of Forms
• Implementing error-handling code
• Binding Access Forms and controls to SQL Server stored procedures

Course content
ACCESS MACROS AND VBA

• The power of macros
• Creating decision-making macros
• Advantages and disadvantages of macros
• Converting macros to VBA
• Visual Basic Editor
• Navigating the Project Explorer
• Editing code with the Code Window

EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING

• Building event procedures
• Binding macros to event properties
• Building events with wizards
• Improving code readability
• Applying IntelliSense tools
• Exploiting coding techniques
• Event logic
• Identifying the order of events
• Assigning requirements to events

MANIPULATING OBJECTS

• Objects and Object models
• Methods
• Properties
• Events
• Accessing and using individual objects
• Applying the Access Object Model
• Programming Access objects
• Application
• Forms collection
• Form and report object
• Controls collection
• Bang (!) vs. Period (.)
• Exploiting the ComboBox, ListBox, Option Group and TextBox
• Writing code with the Me keyword
• Object Browser
• Finding objects
• Object libraries
• Locating methods, properties and events
• Gateway into the Help system

LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

• Creating variables
• Naming rules and conventions
• Declaring objects
• Implicit and explicit conversions
• The scope and life of variables
• Implementing built-in functions
• Date, string and file system functions
• Integrating symbolic and intrinsic constants

TOTAL CONTROL WITH VBA

• Controlling execution sequence
• Creating decision-making logic
• Building iteration statements
• Queries and the Immediate If (IIf)
• Populating fixed and dynamic arrays
• Sub and function procedures
• Arguments
• Calling
• MsgBox
• Returning values
• Operators and expressions
• Defining comparative statements
• Constructing relational expressions

DATA PROGRAMMING

• Data Access Objects (DAO)
• Manipulating data using Recordsets
• Building and modifying QueryDefs
• Populating parameter queries
• Verifying Form data
• Bound and unbound forms and controls
• Changing data sources within code
• Executing SQL statements

ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITY

• Communicating with SQL Server
• Utilizing pass-through queries
• Binding ADO Recordsets to forms
• Automation with Access
• Early vs. late binding
• Controlling external applications

TRAPPING ERRORS AND DEBUGGING

• Develop error handling
• Classifying errors
• Working with the Err object
• Managing runtime errors
• Exploiting debugging tools
• Testing and validating code
• Troubleshooting logic issues

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