Hi FullName,
This message is your first November message from ProgrammingMSAccess.com. We are rapidly racing forward to the November and December holidays. I hope you find time in your schedule to reflect on those who are less fortunate than you. In addition, I hope you are able to extend yourself to help someone else enjoy this holiday season. As you do, I will endeavor to keep the good news coming to you from ProgrammingMSAccess.com with lots of special content that you are not likely to find elsewhere.
This message includes a summary of the two most popular books that visitors buy from our Amazon.com links. In addition, we are adding a new product review to our Product Review section. The reviewed product is non-traditional for our site, but I bet that many of you will be able to find a good use for it. Next, there’s a reminder about a fresh filter set for SPAM Blocker. Recall that SPAM Blocker is our solution for filtering spam with Outlook 2000/2002/2003. Finally, we tell you about two special links that we recently discovered at the MSDN site. If you like the content at this site, you will almost surely value these links. Learn about them and add them to your favorite links.
ProgrammingMSAccess.com
started as an author-sponsored site
Did you know that ProgrammingMSAccess.com started as an authored-sponsored site? Actually, the web site’s name derives from my first book for MS Press, which is titled “Programming Microsoft Access 2000”. I recently took a look at the books that site visitors were buying at Amazon.com from our links. For the past several quarters, two books have been consistent best sellers. These are “Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003” and “Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases”.
The “Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003” book is the
third edition of my programming Microsoft Access series. I love programming, and I love Access. While 2003 is in the title, many of the VBA code
samples work equally well in all versions from Access 2000. This book delivers an advanced presentation
of how to use
The “Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases” is among my very favorite books because it brings together one of my old computing passions (Access) with one of my more recent delights (VB.NET). The great thing about the book for Access developers is that all the database samples are with Access databases. I do not know of any other book that shows you how to program Access user-level security with VB.NET and ADO.NET. In addition to a solid introduction to VB.NET, you’ll find a couple of chapters on ASP.NET and even one chapter on XML Web Services. If you are serious about learning how to use VB.NET and you have an Access background, this is probably the right book for you.
BTW, as an author-sponsored site, we encourage you to learn more about any of the webmaster’s books and DVDs. The site features a book and DVD section with more information about all 9 titles authored by the webmaster. We also remind you that we are running a special during November and December. The first 30 persons to sign our Guest Book receive a coupon for 15% off the list price for any of the three DVDs authored by the webmaster. You can claim your discount when you purchase my DVDs, as well as those from other authors, from DV Press.
Site link for “Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003”:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#A2003
Site link for “Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for Microsoft Access Databases”:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/default.htm#VBDotNetAccess
Summary of all books and DVDs authored by the webmaster:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/
ProgrammingMSAccess.com Guest Book:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/mygb.htm
New product review
at the site
I have been patiently waiting for an easy, inexpensive, and reasonably powerful screen recording application for some time. My DVD publisher merges live video and screen recordings along with other content in the DVDs that he publishes. He also has several full-time video recording experts on staff.
I wanted to be able to shoot a few simple screen recordings and share them with site visitors. I feel that offering you screen recordings that show how to perform frequently requested tasks would be a good way of saying “thank you for visiting and I hope you come back soon.” However, I didn’t know where to get a screen recording application that was easy, inexpensive, and powerful at the same time that it was especially convenient for generating playback files that worked well over the Internet.
One of my site’s sponsors recently came out with a package called DemoCharge 2004 that I think will meet my requirements. You can visit ProgrammingMSAccess.com in a quarter or two and see if I have started a library of recordings. In the meantime, you can check out my review of the DemoCharge 2004 package. The review includes a summary of the product, several sample screens showing how you interface with it, and a couple of sample screen recordings that I generated with its help. Even if you are not a professional author/trainer who also serves as a webmaster, I think this product may be of interest to you.
If you have the time, give me a reply with some tasks for which you would like to see recordings. Who knows, you just may see them at the site before too long.
BTW, we are giving away three copies of DemoCharge 2004 in this quarter. See pages in our Free Stuff section and our Database Developers Group (DDG) Section to learn how you can get your free copy from ProgrammingMSAccess.com. DDG members actually have two chances to get DemoCharge 2004. The first new member to join or renew in December automatically receives a copy. Then, a second copy will be awarded to one lucky member on December 31. You can make sure that you have that chance to win by joining the DDG now, and you will still be eligible to win another copy awarded to one person who signs our Guest Book during October through December.
Site link for DemoCharge 2004 product review:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/ProductReviews/DemoCharge2004Review.htm
Menu for site’s product review section:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/ProductReviews/
Free Stuff section link:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Contests/
Database Developers Group section link:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/DatabaseDevelopersGroup/
How to join or renew the DDG: http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/DatabaseDevelopersGroup/HowDoIJoin.htm
ProgrammingMSAccess.com Guest Book:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/mygb.htm
SPAM Blocker update
SPAM Blocker has a newly posted set of filters. If you were waiting for a fresh set of filters to get your copy of this valuable program, now is the time to act. If you have an Upgraded edition of the package that allows you to download over the life of your license, now is a great time to download the package again and get some fresh filters.
By the way, our sample screen recording in the product review of DemoCharge 2004 shows how to copy information from your order confirmation message to the SPAM Blocker login page that lets you download SPAM Blocker. Let us know if you would like to see additional recordings that show you other elements about installing and configuring SPAM Blocker.
I want to take a moment to say that we continue to get messages from folks who bought a spam filtering program from another vendor besides ProgrammingMSAccess.com. It is my suspicion from the frequency with which we receive service requests for spam filtering programs from other vendors that some of these vendors are better at selling (or even giving away spam filtering software) than they are at servicing it. We have a spam filtering program that works well, and we will continue to serve those who buy SPAM Blocker from us.
About SPAM Blocker:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/SpamBlocker/default.htm
Order SPAM Blocker now:
http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/orderform.htm
Especially interesting MSDN content
I very rarely refer you to content at other sites from this newsletter. However, since my last message to you, I discovered a couple of web pages at the MSDN site that I think will have exceptional appeal to many of our site’s visitors.
Many of our site visitors come because of the VBA code samples. I can only conclude that some of you want to know about VBA. Microsoft recently added a page to its MSDN site from which you can download the VBA language references for all of its Office products, including Access 2003. The same page also includes links for viewing online the VBA language references for Office XP and Office 2000. If you find it valuable to program solutions with VBA, then make a point of visiting the MSDN VBA Language References page.
If you have been following SQL Server and Visual Studio, you probably know that a new version of both of these packages is on the way. We should see the new versions in 2005. You may be wondering how to get the beta and how to use the beta for SQL Server 2005. The answer to both of these questions is at the SQL Server section of the MSDN site. If you want to know about SQL Server 2005, I urge you to visit this site soon.
MSDN VBA Language References page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/downloads/vba/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/
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Rick