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Access 2002 is mostly a very intuitive and easy to use application. From the early days of Access, usability has always been one of the primary development focuses behind Access. In fact it was this ease of use that was a major factor in the incredible speed with which Access came to be accepted as the definitive desktop database development tool.
But Access has always appealed to a wider audience than simply end users and inexperienced developers. Behind its ease of use, Access has always provided a very powerful database and application development tool - more recent releases of Access have extended this power even further with the introduction of features such as Access Database Projects (ADPs), Data Access Pages (DAPs) and the adoption of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) version 6 as its programming language.
In this chapter, we introduce the application we will be developing throughout the course of this book. After that, we'll contrast the differences between macros and VBA, and highlight one of the limitations you will encounter when using macros.
But before any of this, let's begin by defining what an Access Application is, and take you through the design processes you ought to consider before you even begin coding.
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