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Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases [Paperback]

Rick Dobson (Author)

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Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2003 edition (Jan 16 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735618194
ISBN-13: 978-0735618190
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.8 x 4.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg

Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #779,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description

The Microsoft® .NET Framework represents an exciting new world for developers who work with Microsoft Access, Visual Basic®, and Visual Basic for Applications. This book provides complete, practical details on how to take advantage of this world by building or upgrading Access-based client applications with Visual Basic .NET. It gives you specific instructions about how the .NET Framework pertains to Access development. Then it explores programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET, and it puts it all together with examples and code samples that show how to develop robust Web applications and services with these tools.

Topics covered include:

What’s in the Microsoft .NET Framework for Access developers
Getting started with Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET
Visual Basic.NET techniques for data types, procedures, loops, arrays, classes, class inheritance, event processing, structured exception handling, and file processing
Code behind Windows Forms and programming with form controls
Form navigation, the Data Form Wizard, and programming the DataGrid control
Learning ADO.NET architecture and programming data access and manipulation, plus drilling down on datasets and parent-child relations with ADO.NET
A Windows Form sample to browse, manipulate, and handle concurrency violations
Learning ASP.NET page design and implementing ADO.NET with ASP.NET pages
Using, creating, and deploying XML Web services
Securing .NET Windows and Web applications using Access databases
Appendix: XML syntax and schema conventions plus Visual Studio .NET XML Designers

INCLUDES SAMPLE CODE ON THE WEB!

Sample code available at the COMPANION CONTENT link on this page

About the Author

Rick Dobson is the author of the Microsoft Press® titles Programming Microsoft Access Version 2002 and Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. He is the founder and chief technologist of CAB. He has more than a dozen years’ experience delivering professional computer services and is an accomplished author, speaker, and developer. His work regularly appears in many publications, including Byte, Microsoft Office & Visual Basic for Applications Developer, DBMS, Visual Basic Developer, Microsoft Web Developer, Visual Developer, and Smart Computing. He has led training classes in the United States and abroad, teaching developers from companies including Proctor & Gamble, Bell Laboratories, and Cincinnati Gas & Electrics. CAB's offices are in Louisville, Kentucky.

Since 1999, Rick's company has sponsored its own national tour. Over the years the content of the tours has changed to reflect Rick's books as well as the most recent software releases from Microsoft. His 2002 tour was titled "The Access/SQL Server/VB.NET Development Seminar." The seminar attracts independent as well as corporate organizations such as Bank of America, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, State Farm Insurance, Prudential, EDS, the U.S. Navy, and Panasonic. These annual seminars provide Access developers, SQL Server developers, and database administrators the information they require to deliver better solutions to their clients as well as helping Visual Basic developers put Visual Basic .NET to use for database applications. For specific locations and registration for the next seminar tour, visit http://www.programmingaccess.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good transition from VBA to VB.NET, April 16 2004

The Dude "The Dude Abides" (Bridgeport, WV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases (Paperback)

The target audience for the book is, quite simply, Access developers who are accustomed to VBA and/or VB 6.

This book serves a good purpose, as the .NET materials I have seen to date all refer to SQL Server in their examples; they acknowledge Access, but fail to show its uses. I am not crazy about seeing "old" technology such as ADO used in some of the examples, but for a book of this nature (transitioning between coding languages) I guess that is inevitable that some old/new information would be included at various points.

Do not purchase the book if you're intending to use the built-in VBA capabilities of Access or other Office applications -- that's strictly not covered. What you will find, though, is a good sense of how VB.NET operates on its own, and how to create applications that draw upon the data stored in your Access databases.

This should be a good base point for someone who's developed in Access, and wants to investigate moving forward; it should be a means to an end, rather than the destination itself. Additional reading on ADO.NET and classes will be helpful, I believe, to continue fleshing out knowledge to be truly effective in your work, but this book does a good job of introducting those concepts.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Security, Mar 10 2004

Paul Morrison (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases (Paperback)

Nice walkthrough of setting up database security (MDW file). Only reasonable source I found for this.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a Good Book, Mar 8 2004

JOHNNIE R HOWARD (Columbus Ohio) - See all my reviews