ProgrammingMSAccess.com's webmaster, Rick Dobson,  welcomes Access, SQL Server and VB developers to the site.  Rick's tip: I am pleased to launch the Access/SQL Server/VB.NET Development Seminar.  This is the fourth annual tour sponsored by my practice.  Click here to find out more, including how to register.  Sign our Guest Book to get reminders about upcoming important dates, such as the end of the early-bird discount or when the seminar will travel to each of six cities.

 Hot Flashes:  

Sign up for the Database Developers Group.  By joining through June 30, 2002, you become eligible to win SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition, Office XP Developers Edition, or Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Visual Basic .NET.  See our FAQ on the group for answers to common questions.

During June, win one of five copies of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.  Click Free Stuff to learn how.  Tell your friends now because this opportunity expires at the end of June.

Excerpts from the Programming Microsoft Access Version 2002 book give you a chance to try before you buy.  Most of the samples in this material work with earlier versions of Access as well.

ProgrammingMSAccess.com  is giving away through the end of June two software prizes from FMS and two annual subscriptions to SQL Server Magazine.   Click Free Stuff to learn more about these offers or just sign our Guest Book so we can notify you if you win.  By the way, anyone can get a free trial issue of SQL Server Magazine by going to the magazine give-away page and clicking the magazine's logo.

About the books:  

Rick Dobson is the author of four books on Access, SQL Server, and Visual Basic .NET development.  These books offer thorough coverage of programming topics for Access and SQL Server development with VBA and  Visual Basic .NET.

Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET introduces VB developers to both SQL Server and Visual Basic .NET.  Its ADO.NET coverage is much more SQL Server centric than general .NET books.  In addition, the book includes three chapters XML processing techniques for SQL Server and Visual Basic .NET.  The book's final chapter drills down on XML Web Services, including the SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit.

Programming Microsoft Access Version 2002 is Rick's most recent book.  This book carefully examines the latest features in Access 2002 as it provides special coverage of interoperability features between Access 2002 and SQL Server 2000.

Professional SQL Server Development with Access 2000 drills down on techniques for creating SQL Server solutions with Access.  While the book especially targets Access 2000 developers using SQL Server 7, there is plenty of valuable content for developers using either Access 2002 or SQL Server 2000.

Programming Microsoft Access 2000 targets beginning and intermediate developers seeking to learn ADO and get a good grasp of the feature set offered by Access 2000.