ADDING THE PROFESSIONAL LOOK AND DISTRIBUTING APPLICATIONS
by F. Scott Barker
F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ROOT OF POWER PROGRAMMING
- MACROS ARE FOR WEENIES; CODE IS COOL!
- CODING IN ACCESS 2000 WITH VBA
- MAKING THE CHOICE: MDB OR ADP, DAO OR ADO
- LOOKING AT THE ACCESS COLLECTIONS
- WORKING WITH DATA ACCESS OBJECTS
- INTRODUCING ACTIVEX DATA OBJECTS
- HANDLING YOUR ERRORS IN ACCESS WITH VBA
- ACCESS ERROR MESSAGING
- DIFFERENT WAYS OF USING ERROR HANDLING
- EXAMINING ACCESS'S RUNTIME ERROR HANDLING
- WORKING WITH THE ERR AND ERROR OBJECTS
- WORKING WITH THE ERRORS COLLECTION
- CREATING USER-DEFINED ERRORS
- TRACKING ERRORS BY USING A CUSTOM ERROR LOG
- CREATING A CENTRALIZED ERROR-HANDLING ROUTINE
- A LAST LOOK AT ERROR-HANDLING ISSUES
- SUMMARY
- MANIPULATING AND PRESENTING DATA
- USING QUERIES TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DATA
- UNDERSTANDING WHERE QUERIES ARE USED IN ACCESS
- USING SELECT QUERIES: POWER IN THE QUERY DESIGN GRID
- WORKING WITH ACTION QUERIES: FOUNDATIONS FOR POWER
- USING ADVANCED QUERY OPERATIONS
- ADDING MORE POWER WITH VBA
- WORKING WITH QUERIES TO FEED REPORTS AND FORMS
- SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH QUERIES
- EXAMINING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE QUERY RESOLUTION PROCESS
- DISCOVERING JET OPTIMIZATION METHODS
- UNDERSTANDING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
- USING UNCONVENTIONAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
- USING THE ANALYZER WIZARDS
- SUMMARY
- CREATING POWERFUL FORMS
- EXPANDING THE POWER OF YOUR FORMS WITH CONTROLS
- SETTING UP A FIELD'S LOOKUP PROPERTIES FOR USE ON FORMS
- TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF COMBO BOXES
- WORKING WITH THE NATIVE ACCESS TAB CONTROL
- MORPHING ACCESS CONTROLS
- PROGRAMMING FOR POWER WITH MULTISELECT LISTBOX CONTROLS
- USING THE SUBFORM/SUBREPORT WIZARD FOR RELIEF
- GIVING SPREADSHEET-TYPE CURSOR MOVEMENTS TO CONTROLS
- MANIPULATING CONTROLS THROUGH CODE
- SUMMARY
- CREATING POWERFUL REPORTS
- USING THE SAME REPORT FOR SUMMARY, DETAIL, AND SUMMARY/DETAIL REPORTS
- USING QUERY BY FORM TO CREATE DYNAMIC GROUPINGS FOR THE SAME REPORT
- THE ELUSIVE FEATURE: CREATING SNAKING REPORTS
- USING DYNAMIC COLUMNS TO CREATE A REPORT OFF A CROSSTAB QUERY
- CHOOSING MULTIPLE TOPICS TO PRINT BY USING THE MULTISELECT LIST BOX
- CREATING A WIZARD-LIKE INTERFACE FOR SELECTING GROUP-BY ITEMS
- FORMATTING REPORTS DYNAMICALLY
- SUMMARY
- WORKING WITH DATA PAGES
- USING QUERIES TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DATA
- EXTENDING ACCESS WITH INTEROPERABILITY
- DRIVING OFFICE APPLICATIONS WITH AUTOMATION AND DDE
- PROGRAMMING FOR POWER WITH ACTIVEX CONTROLS
- UNDERSTANDING THE ACTIVEX WINDOWS COMMON CONTROLS
- TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMAGELIST CONTROL
- EMULATING THE WINDOWS 95 EXPLORER WITH THE LISTVIEW CONTROL
- DISPLAYING A TASK'S PROGRESS WITH THE PROGRESSBAR CONTROL
- SIZING TEXT BOXES AT RUNTIME WITH THE SLIDER CONTROL
- TELLING IT LIKE IT IS WITH THE MICROSOFT RICH TEXTBOX CONTROL
- CREATING STATUS BARS FOR INDIVIDUAL FORMS WITH THE STATUSBAR CONTROL
- Setting Status Bar Properties at Runtime
- DOCKING TOOLBARS ON FORMS USING THE TOOLBAR CONTROL
- VIEWING DATA FILE MANAGER STYLE WITH THE TREEVIEW CONTROL
- SUMMARY
- USING API CALLS TO EXTEND THE POWER OF ACCESS
- UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARIES
- EXAMINING THE SYNTAX FOR API CALLS
- FINDING API DECLARATIONS
- VIEWING THE POSSIBLE API CALLS
- CONSIDERING SOME ISSUES WHEN USING API CALLS
- LOOKING AT SOME EXAMPLES OF API CALLS
- DISPLAYING PERTINENT FOLDERS FROM WITHIN YOUR APPLICATION
- USING THE OPEN FILE DIALOG API CALL
- SUMMARY
- EXTENDING YOUR VBA LIBRARY POWER WITH CLASS MODULES AND COLLECTIONS
- CREATING YOUR OWN WIZARDS AND ADD-INS
- MANIPULATING THE REGISTRY WITH VBA
- USING ACCESS WITH THE INTERNET
- ADDING THE PROFESSIONAL LOOK AND DISTRIBUTING APPLICATIONS
- PROGRAMMING OFFICE COMMAND BARS AND THE OFFICE ASSISTANT
- SECURING YOUR APPLICATION
- UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF SECURING YOUR APPLICATION
- UNDERSTANDING SECURITY IN ACCESS 2000
- LOOKING AT THE SECURITY USER INTERFACE
- USING TOOLS TO MAKE LIFE WITH ACCESS SECURITY EASIER
- AVOIDING COMMON PITFALLS FOUND IN ACCESS SECURITY
- MANAGING SECURITY THROUGH CODE
- USING THE SECURED SAMPLE DATABASE: CHAP21S.MDB
- SUMMARY
- MANAGING DATABASES
- HANDLING MULTIUSER SITUATIONS
- WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DATABASE REPLICATION
- UNDERSTANDING DATABASE REPLICATION CONCEPTS
- UNDERSTANDING THE JET REPLICATION TOOLS
- CONVERTING A DATABASE TO A REPLICA
- SYNCHRONIZING REPLICAS
- UNDERSTANDING REPLICA SET TOPOLOGIES
- AUTOMATING STAR AND HUB SYNCHRONIZATION
- DISTRIBUTING REPLICABLE APPLICATIONS
- REPLICATING BACK-END AND FRONT-END APPLICATIONS
- DEALING WITH REPLICATION CONFLICTS
- UNDERSTANDING REPLICATION SYNCHRONIZERS
- UPGRADING REPLICA SETS FROM ACCESS 97 TO ACCESS 2000
- SECURING REPLICATED APPLICATIONS
- USING MDE FILES WITH REPLICATED DATABASES
- CREATING SUCCESSFUL REPLICATION APPLICATIONS
- SUMMARY
- MOVING WORKGROUP APPLICATIONS TO CLIENT/SERVER
- DEVELOPING SQL SERVER PROJECTS USING ADPS
- ADDING FINISHING TOUCHES
- STARTUP CHECKING SYSTEM ROUTINES USING DAO
- PERFORMING STARTUP SYSTEM CHECKS
- USING CUSTOM DATABASE PROPERTIES
- NOTIFYING AND LOGGING USERS OUT OF AN APPLICATION
- TESTING THE CONNECTIONS OF LINKED TABLES AT STARTUP
- LINKING AND UNLINKING TABLES THROUGH VBA
- TESTING AND REPAIRING CORRUPTED JET BACK-END DATABASES
- CHECKING AND NOTIFYING USERS OF A NEW VERSION
- SUMMARY
- STARTUP CHECKING SYSTEM ROUTINES USING ADO
- CREATING MAINTENANCE ROUTINES
- STARTUP CHECKING SYSTEM ROUTINES USING DAO
- APPENDIXES
- DEBUGGING CODE IN ACCESS 2000
- SETTING THE CORRECT MODULE OPTIONS FOR MAXIMUM DEBUGGING POWER
- TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE IMMEDIATE WINDOW
- STOPPING PROGRAM EXECUTION
- DEBUGGING ONE STEP AT A TIME
- VIEWING THE ORDER OF PROCEDURE CALLS
- WATCHING EXPRESSIONS DURING PROGRAM EXECUTION
- CONTROLLING CODE WITH CONDITIONAL COMPILATION COMMANDS
- SUMMARY
- GETTING STARTED WITH ACTIVEX CONTROLS
- ACCESS 2000 AND JET 4 ERRORS
- LESZYNSKI NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR MICROSOFT ACCESS®
- NAMING CONVENTIONS: A PRIMER
- ACCESS OBJECT TYPES
- STRUCTURING OBJECT NAMES
- CREATING DATABASE OBJECT BASE NAMES
- NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR DATABASE OBJECTS
- CREATING VBA OBJECT BASE NAMES
- NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR VBA OBJECTS
- CREATING YOUR OWN TAGS
- VBA CODING CONVENTIONS
- STANDARDIZED ABBREVIATIONS
- STANDARDIZED TERMINOLOGY
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT LNC
- DEBUGGING CODE IN ACCESS 2000
- Index
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