Form Modules: How to

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Ed Warren

I have a set of applications. They share about 90% of the same forms with
about 10% unique to each application.

I'm looking for a way to 'modulerize' the 90%, so I can keep that set in a
module of some sort and only have to update the code once rather than 5
times, when I need to make changes to one of the 'shared forms'

Ed Warren.
 
There are three basic options I can think of.

The best, IMHO, would be to get a copy of SourceSafe. If you are not
familiar with it, it is a version control program that works with VB and
Access. I used this very successfully when I had an application that, like
yours, was 90% vanilla for four different clients. Each had some special
modes. It allowed me to build an app for any of the clients without worrying
about getting the right mods in.

The second would be to have a Master copy that is the generic version and
make all the changes there except those specific to a client, then copy the
mods from the master into the individual client versions.

The other would be a library database. I have not used this, so I can't
speak to exactly how well it will work for you.
 
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