Office® XP Development with VBA

Creating Data Access Pages

You can create data access pages programmatically, but just as with forms and reports, it is much easier to use the design tools that are part of Access. You have three choices: to use a wizard to create a data access page, to open a blank data access page in design view, or to open an existing Web page on which you want to base the new data access page. Figure 7.4 shows a blank data access page in design view. As with forms and reports, you have a toolbox of controls that you can place on the page, although the selection of controls is somewhat different when you are creating a data access page. Some of the controls are Web-related, such as hyperlinks that are bound to your data. There are some very sophisticated controls ...