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Programming Micrososft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases
by Rick Dobson	ISBN:0735618194
Microsoft Press 2003 (634 pages)
This book Provides programmers with the practical details they need to create or rewrite Microsoft Accessbased client applications using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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The Microsoft .NET Framework represents an exciting new world for developers who work with Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications. This book provides complete, practical details on how to take advantage of this world by building or upgrading Access-based client applications with Visual Basic .NET. It gives you specific instructions about how the .NET Framework pertains to Access development. Then it explores programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET, and puts it all together with examples and code samples that show how to develop robust Web applications and services with these tools.

Topics covered include:

• Whats in the Microsoft .NET Framework for Access developers
• Visual Basic .NET techniques for data types, procedures, loops , arrays, classes, class inheritance, event processing, structured exception handling, and file processing
• Code behind Windows Forms and programming with form controls
• Form navigation, the Data Form Wizard, and programming the DataGrid control
• Learning about the ADO.NET architecture, and programming data access and manipulation, plus drilling down on datasets and parent-child relations with ADO.NET
• A Windows Form sample to browse, manipulate, and handle concurrency violations
• Learning ASP.NET page design, and implementing ADO.NET with ASP.NET pages
• Using, creating, and deploying XML Web services
• Securing .NET Windows and Web applications using Access databases
• XML syntax and schema conventions plus Microsoft Visual Studio .NET XML Designers

About the Author

Rick Dobson is an author, trainer, and Webmaster. You can find his articles in numerous publications and Web sites, such as SQL Server Magazine , the MSDN Online Library, Microsoft TechNet, Visual Basic Programmers Journal , and Microsoft Interactive Developer . Two of Ricks recent books for Microsoft Press are Programming Microsoft Access Version 2002 (Core Reference) and Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET . Microsoft selected Rick as an Access hero in its celebration of the tenth anniversary of Access. His company, CAB, Inc., has offered nationwide seminars about Microsoft database tools annually since 1999. Seminar registrants include independent developers as well as developers from organizations such as Bank of America, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, the U.S. Navy, EDS, Prudential, State Farm, and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Pacific Gas & Electric.