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This site is devoted to supporting readers of the volumes in the Developer's Handbook series written by Paul Litwin, Mike Gunderloy, Ken Getz, and Mike Gilbert. All the books are published by Sybex. Please take a second and send a quick email message, even if you don't add any text to the message, send it off so we can contact you with information about updates, new books, downloads, and so on.
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Interested in Access 2002 (part of Office XP)? So are we. Access 2002 Desktop Developer's Handbook is due out in September 2001. Access 2002 Enterprise Developer's Handbook is due out a few months later. Stop back for more details, as they become available. (Note the new titles -- chosen to make it clearer that these two books are not just two editions of the same material, but are completely different books, covering completely different topics. The authors have changed a bit this time, as well -- we've replaced one Mike with another. Mike Gunderloy, who has been involved with every edition of the book, in one form or another, takes Mike Gilbert's place as one third of the writing team, this time. |
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Want to learn about the new programmability features of Access 2002? As a preview of material in Access 2002 Desktop Developer's Handbook, Ken presented this slide deck, Access 2002 Programmability Features, at a recent conference. You can view the slides, and download the demonstration database (Access 2002 format, only). |
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| Download form scaling/resizing utility from Access 2000 Developer's Handbook, Volume I: Desktop Edition | |
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VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition If you're an Office XP, Office 2000, or VB6 developer (or if you use any other VBA host that provides VBA 6), this book is for you. It includes coverage of many of the built-in VBA functions, and provides solutions, using those functions, to many difficult problems. It shows how to use VBA as a real programming language, using pointers, classes, and dynamic data structures. There's a large section on using the Windows API with VB and VBA, information about objects provided by the Windows Scripting Runtime library, and a section on creating VB and VBA add-ins. This is a revised version of VBA Developer's Handbook. (If you've already purchased VB Language Developer's Handbook, to be honest, this is essentially the same book, with errata fixed and some minor changes. There is no need to repurchase.)
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2000 and VB Language : Developer's Set This three-volume set includes both of the Access 2000 Developer's Handbook (Volume I and Volume II), along with the Visual Basic Language Developer's Handbook. If you're a serious Access 2000 developer, this is the set you need. It includes, at a reduced price, all the best documentation available for this rich and complex product. |
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| Visual Basic Language Developer's Handbook If you're a VB6 or Office 2000 developer (or if you use any other VBA host that provides VBA 6), this book is for you. It includes coverage of many of the built-in VBA functions, and provides solutions, using those functions, to many difficult problems. It shows how to use VBA as a real programming language, using pointers, classes, and dynamic data structures. There's a large section on using the Windows API with VB and VBA, information about objects provided by the Windows Scripting Runtime library, and a section on creating VB and VBA add-ins. This is a revised version of VBA Developer's Handbook, revisited for VBA 6, and with a little more "VB" spin. |
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| Access 2000 Developer's Handbook Set (includes both Volumes I and II, at a special reduced price) |  |
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| Access 2000 Developer's Handbook, Volume II (Enterprise) | |
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Developer's Handbook Volume I (Desktop)
NOTE: This book has been reprinted with the same cover as Volume II. This is still the same book: only the cover has changed. There's no need to purchase another copy (unless you want a copy for a friend or something). Feel free to buy another, but it's essentially the same book. We're not pulling a fast one--Sybex just decided to change the covers. |
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To clear up any questions about the Volume I (Desktop) vs. Volume II (Enterprise) thing: Paul, Mike, and Ken sat down one day in 1998, and decided that Access 2000 was simply too big a product to try and squeeze coverage of it into the absolute largest book Sybex would publish: 1600 pages or so. Therefore, they determined to split the coverage into two volumes so that each could be up to 1600 pages. Volume I hit its maximum size, but Volume II will most likely be a more reasonable 800 to 1000 pages.
Volume I, out in September, covers desktop features of Access 2000, including class modules, SQL, forms, reports, ADO, Windows API, add-ins, and other desktop Access features. It is, to quote Ken, "the Access 97 book we wanted to write, if they had added class modules in earlier, and had gotten all the neat VBA features VB6 had." Volume II, out in December 1999, covers enterprise features of Access 2000, including multi-user and client-server features, Access Data Projects, Microsoft Data Engine, Data Access Pages and other Internet features, Replication, and Security. There's no overlap in content between the two books.
Please stop back often -- we update the errata list as we hear about them, and add article references and downloads as we can.
-- Paul, Mike, and Ken
26 December 2000