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Microsoft Access is a development environment used to create computer-based databases. To complement it, it ships with a programming language called Visual Basic For Application (VBA). This FunctionX site provides lessons, examples, and tutorials on how to use VBA in MS Access.
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Lessons

1.   Introduction to VB Access 13. Details on Data Entry
2.   Objects and Collections 14. Data Entry and Built-In Functions
3.   Data Types and Variables 15. The Queries of a Database
4.   DAO, ADO, ADOX, and SQL 16. Printing
5.   Procedures and Functions 17. Relationships and Data Integrity
6.   Conditional Statements 18. Data Joins
7.   Error Handling 19. Details on Creating Queries
8.   The Tables of a Database 20. Data Analysis
9.   The Columns of a Table 21. Using Queries
10. The Forms of an Application 22. Introduction to Record Sets
11. The Windows Controls of a Form 23. Data Views and Stored Procedures
12. The Records of a Database
 

Sample Solved Exercises

Time Sheet

This is an example of locating a record in a table and taking action accordingly. For example, it checks if a record exists already. If so, it would be updated. If it doesn't exist yet, then a new one is created.

Georgetown Cleaning Services

This is a better version of the application of the same name referred to in the lessons. This time, we use the DateTimePicker control to help the user specify when the cleaning items and dropped and when they are expected.

Payroll

This application simulates the calculation of overtime in a payroll simulation

Survey Creation

This exercise is an approach to creating a survey using (only what is available in) Microsoft Access. We also cover creating a sample (pie) chart.

Compound Interest

This is an example of calculating the interest accrued on a loan. The calculations are performed depending on an interest rate and the type of frequency (monthly, annually, etc).

 

Topics

Update Many Records
Create Default Values
Toolbars
Call a Procedure
Combo Box (Not In List)
 
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 Tick Counter
 CD Publisher
 Color Changer
 Progressive Clock
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Up Down
 
 

How-To

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ADO

Microsoft Access and DAO

Print an Invoice
Conditionally Open an Object
Pass Argument By Value
Locate a Record
Add a New Record
Create and Execute a Command
Update Many Records
Edit a value of a cell
Add a New Record
Edit a Record
 
 

How-To General Topics

Find the Name of the Week for a Date
List the values of a particular column throughout a table
 

ADO.NET

Data entry using the DataRow class

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Last Update: Monday, April 18, 2016 08:11

Exercises: These are the files supposed to accompany the lessons of this site. If something is wrong with them, please let me know because I haven't checked them for a while. Download

 

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Exercise3 Lesson 6
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GCS2 Lesson 11 Lesson 12
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ROSH Lesson 15, Lesson 16 Lesson 22
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