Books on Access Application Development

[rdrnws]

Dear All:

I am looking for professional references to good books on access application
development. I am particularly interested in:

0. Database design pronciples
1. The general object model concepts
2. Interface customization / event handling with vba
3. Interoperability with Excel
4. Data exchange with external dlls (vb, c++)

I am initially looking at purchasing 3-4 titles on the topics above and your
suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I have prior vba knowledge but
never programmed access before. TIA,

Nikolas

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Take a look at the books by John VIescas (specifically "Building Microsoft
Access Applications") at http://www.viescas.com/Info/books.htm as well as
any of the Access Developer Handbooks at www.developershandbook.com

For additional recommendations, Jeff Conrad has a good page of links to book
recommendations at
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/resources.html#Books

 

[Guest]

The Access Developers Handbooks by Ken Getz, Paul Litwin and Mike Gilbert
are fantastic and cover just about all there is to know about Access.
They also include CD's containing some usefule code that you can just lift
and use in your own applications.

Gary

 

[Larry Linson]

And, in addition, I'd recommend Rebecca Riordan's book "Designing Effect
Database Systems", published by Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-29093-3.

And, although it is based on the .NET technology not on Access, for the
principles it contains, if you can find her book "Seeing Data: Designing
User Interfaces for Database Systems using .NET" at a well-stocked
bookstore, you might take a look to see if it would be helpful. It is also
published by Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-20561-8.

Microsoft Press' book "The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design"
also has a good explanation of principles of UI design, but it is over ten
years old, and may be in need of updating.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP