Chapter 10. Employing Access Predefined Solutions
When you program in Access, you are programming in the Visual Basic for Applications language (VBA), which now exists in all of Microsoft’s Office XP desktop tools. Until Microsoft Visual Basic.NET was invented (not yet released), Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications were converging on becoming a single language. Visual Basic.NET is a brand new language; only the basic constructs of Microsoft Access VBA and Visual Basic.NET are interchangeable. You no longer will be able to exchange VBA files between Access (or other Office XP applications) and Microsoft’s Visual Basic.NET programming language. Currently, you cannot take advantage of the .NET framework with VBA, but VBA is a powerful ...
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