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Building Applications with Microsoft Access 2007: Hands-On

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Learning Tree International

Topic(s):
Computers & Software > Programming & Software

Who Should Attend?
Those planning to create business solutions with Microsoft Access. Experience with Access at the level of Course 970, "Microsoft Access 2007 Introduction," is assumed. Programming experience is recommended, but not required.

Full Seminar Description

You will learn how to

• Develop distributable applications with Microsoft Access 2007
• Incorporate user specifications to enhance application functionality
• Customize applications by dynamically setting properties and executing methods
• Assemble expressions into VBA statements using variables and intrinsic functions
• Control program flow with loops and decision-making logic
• Apply Data Access Objects (DAO) to incorporate business rules
• Centralize the error handling process

Course benefits

In this hands-on course, you gain the skills necessary to create intelligent forms by manipulating properties, executing methods, and incorporating business logic to create a complete solution.

Who should attend

Hands-on training

• 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
• Compiling the application into an executable database (ACCDE)

Course content

• Designing complex macros
• Creating decision-making macros
• Implementing organizational techniques for macros
• Trapping macro errors
• Maximizing macro functionality
• Mastering event driven programming
• Binding macros to event properties

TRANSITIONING TO VBA

• Beyond the macro object
• Identifying limitations of macros
• Converting macros to VBA
• Exploring the Visual Basic Editor
• Traversing the Project Explorer
• Writing code with IntelliSense
• Troubleshooting code with debugging techniques

PROGRAMMING ACCESS OBJECTS

• Navigating the Object Model
• Methods
• Properties
• Events
• Communicating with individual objects
• Interfacing with 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
• Applying event logic
• Identifying the order of events
• Assigning requirements to events
• Demystifying the Object Browser
• Finding objects
• Object libraries
• Locating methods, properties and events
• Gateway into the Help system

CONSTRUCTING VBA EXPRESSIONS

• Creating variables
• Naming rules and conventions
• Declaring objects
• Implicit vs. explicit data type conversions
• Specifying the scope and life of variables
• Implementing built-in functions
• Date, string and file system functions
• Utilizing domain aggregate functions
• Integrating symbolic and intrinsic constants

CONTROLLING PROGRAM EXECUTION

• Structuring code sequences
• Creating decision-making logic
• Building iteration statements
• Queries and the Immediate If (IIf)
• Logical and comparison operators
• Developing comparative statements
• Designing relational expressions
• Optimizing code for scalability and reuse
• Defining procedures with arguments
• Returning values with functions

MANIPULATING AND MANAGING DATA

• Data Access Objects (DAO)
• Executing action SQL statements
• Retrieving data into Recordsets
• Building and modifying parameterized queries
• Accessing multivalued fields using the ComplexType object
• Designing intelligent forms
• Interacting with unbound forms and controls
• Changing data sources within code

PROCESSING RUNTIME ERRORS

• Classifying errors
• Working with the Err object
• Logging and error notification
• Creating error handling strategies

GETTING READY FOR DISTRIBUTION

• Customizing the ribbon
• Configuring start-up options
• Securing your Access database using SharePoint services
• Locking down the database

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