MS Access 2007 forms for .net developers

Question

I need to work with Access to create a form based solution - does anyone know of any good quickstarts / tutorials aimed at .net programmers for this? Everything I have found is aimed at Access beginners where all I need is a foot up to save time trawling through each control etc.

Answer 1

You'll find some basic/conceptual info on Access forms and their management here. This could be a start for your work. There are many other resources available on stackoverflow, often hidden in answers. Do not hesitate to browse the ms-access questions.

Answer 2

I think you're missing a major point -- until you've used Access like a novice, you won't understand how little programming you need to do to get things done.

Do the beginner tutorials -- just do it.

You'll discover that a huge proportion of the stuff that requires code in other development environments is point-and-click simple in Access. After that, go to something more advanced. You won't get any value out of advanced Access tutorials/books unless you fully understand how to use its design facilities interactively, and one of the chief sources of frustration for programmers coming to Access from other platforms is that they just don't understand the default approach in Access, which is using bound data (suitably filtered at runtime, which is something the novice tutorials won't teach you).