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Samples of Good Access Programming Practises

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Object Name Access Version Click Picture to View	Topic	Object Type
AutoExec 2003 2002 2000	The autoexec file runs automatically when your database first opens. You should use this in all your databases. Read more	Macro
basAutoExec 2003 2002 2000	Module to demonstrate functions called from the Autoexec macro	Module
frmRelinkDatabase 2003 2002 2000	This form will open the link manager function where you will locate a back-end database with a name that you pass in the arguments of the function. Once that database has been located and the table is found, all the tables will be relinked to that database.	Form
basGR10_Files 2003 2002	A module that will refresh the table links. If the back-end database does not refresh properly, the user can locate it with the Windows File Dialog.	Module
basGR8_RefreshTableLinks 2000 97	A module to refresh table links	Module
basGR8_Startup 2003 2002 2000	Includes OpenForm and OpenReport functions, userlogging, find current path of database and change window headers.	Module
frmErrorHandling 2003 2002 2000	Show different ways of handling errors using visual basic including no error handling, conventional error handling and continue on error handling.	Form

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