Hi FullName,
This is your second message for news and opportunities from ProgrammingMSAccess.com during February 2005. I am hopeful that you find lots of actionable and helpful content. First, the message reminds you about prizes for the first two new or renewing Database Developers Group (DDG) members during March. These are two valuable prizes that will support your interests in database and application development. Next, we highlight a couple of new contributions to our site’s extensive base of content. In particular, we describe a related pair of items that will better enable you to program parameters. Finally, the message tells you about the most frequently purchased book by your fellow site visitors. If you’re like our other visitors, you may find this book suits your needs as well.
DDG Members Get
Prizes for Joining or Renewing
We try to give away each month one or two prizes for new or renewing Database Developers Group (DDG) members. There are many benefits for membership, including these prizes. The DDG is an association of database developers who are also friends of ProgrammingMSAccess.com. DDG members currently reside on three continents.
The first two members to join or renew a DDG membership during March can win one of two valuable prizes. The first member to join or renew has their choice of either prize, and the second member to join or renew gets the remaining prize. No matter which prize you get, you’ll be a winner many times over by what the prize can do for you and teach you. If you are an existing member with several months left on your current membership, you can still renew. We’ll just add the months left on your current membership to the months for your new membership. BTW, we have three membership plans. Those who opt for a longer membership plan save more on membership fees.
One prize is a copy of the VB.NET Professional edition of Tier Developer that works with SQL Server 7/2000 from AlachiSoft, a California-based technology firm. Tier Developer is a rapid application development tool that works with Visual Studio .NET and your favorite database server to help you build .NET database applications. Tier Developer can create both ASP.NET and Windows forms as well as business objects, such as customers or orders.
Another prize is an annual subscription to Visual Basic Developer. This is one of the great Pinnacle Publishing newsletters. I remember reading Visual Basic Developer (back then it had a different name) from when I first started working with VBA in Access and VBScript in ASP. Even now that I write solutions in VB.NET, Visual Basic Developer is still serving up articles that interest and inform me. I am an occasional contributor to Visual Basic Developer. In the past year, I authored about 4 articles for this fine newsletter. In fact, my very next article will be for Visual Basic Developer. Each monthly issue is filled with 20 pages of content that can turn you into a developer hero, and nearly all the articles have downloads that make it easy for you to try the techniques discussed and demonstrated in an article.
Remember all you have to do to be eligible to win either
of these prizes is be the first or second person to join or renew a DDG
membership during March.
Database Developers Group:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/databasedevelopersgroup/
Description of Tier Developer March 2005 prize:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Contests/TierDeveloper_PrizesNewMar.htm
Description of Visual Basic Developer annual subscription prize:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Contests/VBD_PrizesNewMarch.htm
How to join the DDG:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/DatabaseDevelopersGroup/HowDoIJoin.htm
A New Presentation
and a New Code Sample at the Site
ProgrammingMSAccess.com makes available hundreds of pages of content. This month we add more pages in the form of a slide deck for a presentation and some associated T-SQL code samples. The presentation provides practical tips and demonstrations on how to program parameters and return status values for stored procedures as well as parameters for user-defined functions. The presentation teaches you how to program parameters with both T-SQL and VB.NET/ADO.NET. The new T-SQL code samples for our site are among the scripts covered in the presentation. Both the presentation and its associated T-SQL scripts at the site are available without charge to site visitors. We invite you to browse our site and take a look at our new content.
The full set of T-SQL scripts and a VB.NET project with three Windows forms are available as part of the DDG library. The presentation with all its code samples can be downloaded by any DDG member from their private library. This is part of what we mean when we say that “membership has its privileges”.
Presentation on programming parameters and return status values:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Presentations/ProgramParameters_files/frame.htm
SQL Server Samples at ProgrammingMSAccess.com:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Samples/VBAProcs/vba_code_sample_menu.htm#SS_Samples
Most Popular Book
among ProgrammingMSAccess.com Site Visitors
As many of you know, ProgrammingMSAccess.com is an author-sponsored site. I am Rick Dobson, the site’s webmaster. It is my pleasure to share selected content from my books, DVDs, articles, and seminars with site visitors. I hope the material at this site serves your needs and helps you to grow technically.
When folks buy
books or DVDs from the sight, it is an indication of what others like you find
most interesting. Since the start of
2005, the book purchased most frequently by site visitors is “Programming Microsoft
Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases”. If you ever thought about learning .NET, but
you wanted to learn how to use .NET with your favorite database, Access, this
may be the book for you. You can find a
table of contents for the book, chapter summaries, and a couple of excerpts
from the book at the site. I encourage
you to check these out to determine if the book is right for you.
Visual Basic .NET
got off to a rocky start in the Visual Basic community. Nevertheless, Microsoft insists that it is
betting the business on .NET. The .NET
Framework became a part of Visual Studio back in 2002. The .NET Framework will find itself in SQL
Server later this year. As soon as next
year or the year after that, the .NET Framework will find itself in the
replacement for Windows XP. As you can
see, .NET is coming soon to a desktop near you.
If you decide that you want to get a head start on how to use .NET, I
hope you choose any of my .NET books and DVDs.
Your fellow visitors bought “Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for
Microsoft Access Databases” more than any other book promoted at the site. Links for additional .NET book and DVD titles
appear below our most popular .NET book.
Book: Programming
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#VBDotNetAccess
Book: Programming
Microsoft SQL Server .NET with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#SQLDotNet
DVD: Programming
Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET with SQL Server and Access:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#DVDVBADONET
DVD: Visually
Learn Visual Basic .NET in 12 Hours:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#DVDBegVBNet
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Rick