The Benefits of Microsoft Access Forms to Create a User Friendlier Database
Microsoft Access forms allows the use of data to be presented, managed and controlled in a user-friendly environment making Access more intuitive to use. Designing forms is critical for other users who will be responsible for the day-to-day running of a database and have very little knowledge of the structure of an Access database or its background processes. More ...
Write Your Own VBScript HTA Text Editor
Because this application is designed for instructional purposes, I didn't design it with the conventional File drop-down menu. In order to show how menu items link to the code that performs each function, I just placed all the menu selections in the main menu. More ...
Your First Visual Basic 2010 Express Program
Visual Basic is very popular because its Visual Programming Environment lets you develop Windows applications by dragging and dropping controls from a Toolbox. It's also popular because it's based on the Basic programming language, and because Visual Basic Express edition can be downloaded from Microsoft's website for free. More ...
The Components of the Microsoft Access Database Interface
As you open a document window in Microsoft Access, toolbars, menu bars (or Ribbon Bars from version 2007) will change state and can be a little disorientating at first. In some cases, you can only be in one type of window to view a function or feature. More ...
Five Reasons Why You Should Consider Splitting a Microsoft Access Database
In the development and design mode, your Access database runs perfectly. But when you deploy the database, end-users complain that it's slow or it fails to respond. When you have concurrent users accessing your database, you may need to split an Access database and the following five reasons explain why. More ...
How to Utilise and Apply Access Database Normalisation Techniques
In the design of an Access database, the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. Normalization usually involves dividing large, badly-formed tables into smaller, well-formed tables and defining relationships between them. More ...
Introduction to Visual Basic 2005 Express
Because the Visual Basic Express IDE does so much "hand holding", within minutes of installing Visual Basic Express you where able to create a real, although tiny, Windows application. Building bigger more complex applications is just more of the same. More ...
Video - Visual Basic Express 2010 - Getting Started and the First Program
This video by SchoolFreeware shows you how to create your very first Visual Basic Express 2010 program. More ...
Reading and Writing Files with the VBScript FileSystemObject
The example code in this article uses the VBScript FileSystemObject and TextStream Object to read a text file and write a new text file, reformatting the text into lines a maximum of 90 characters long, except when that would break a word, then it extends the line length to include the entire word. More ...
Compile C Sharp Without Visual Studio
I have never been very excited about C sharp because you have to use Visual Studio to write programs with it. I don't like to use over-complicated IDEs to write programs because the IDE is often more difficult to figure out than the programming language itself. The fact is you actually can write C sharp programs without Visual Studio. More ...
