Beginning Access 2000 VBA [With CDROM]

This is about the 10th book on Access VBA that I've read, and it is by far the best. The presentation is complete, and more importantly, logical. After studying this book, I finally feel like I understand how the various features work.

All wrox books ship without CDs. You are supposed to download the code from their website.Shame on you who can't be bothered to visit their site even once!

The book itself is GREAT! Lots of great concepts and tips, etc. The only problem is the book ships with a CD that does not have all of the chapter examples! On page 29 it states they provide a file for each chapter, specifically for the work they have done in that chapter. None of the chapter by chapter examples are on the disk. You have to email the company to get them to send you the disk.

After developing in Access & SQL Server for a number of years, I was always intimidated by VB development and had made a conscious effort to develop "work-arounds" for my lack of hard-coding skill. However, my current project required that I take-over and inherit someone else's work. Imagine my horror when I discovered that the person who built the database I had to maintain had done so almost entirely in VBA (and didn't document a single word of code). Where were all the macros? Where had my happy place gone? I begrudgingly accepted the fact that I would have to learn VBA in order to fix this database and support it. Although I'm not quite through the book, I felt like it was written specifically for guys like me. You must know your Access and your basic theory of database, but if syntax and coding experience is what you need, this book is great. I plan on getting the "Professional" version by Wrox as well.

This book is an intermediate reference which I would NOT recommend to the absolute beginner. Get Evan Callahan's book of nearly the same title. THEN get this book because I have found it to be an invaluable reference. Great how-to examples for every common programming task. You WILL be a true Access geek when you get through this book. For graduation, treat yourself the Developer's Handbook. You'll actually understand what's in it.