Microsoft Access Links

(Updated 2008/01/05)

• Microsoft Access Web
• Fellow Access MVP sites
• Google Web Directory - MS Access
• Dmoz Open Directory Project - MS Access (similar to Google)

• Microsoft's Main Access page
• Microsoft's Access Support Center
• Microsoft Download Center (You may need to change "Show Results for" to "All Downloads" from "Most Recent")
• Microsoft Office for Developers
• MSDN for Office
• Microsoft's Main Access Developers page (Access 2000 and A97)
• Microsoft's free stuff for Access 97 Developers.

Fellow MVP and newsgroup denizen sites
also see Fellow Access MVP sites

• Access <insert your version here> Developer's Handbook considered by many to the be definitive advanced series of books on Access.   Every time I open it it saves me the cost of the book.
• Trevor Best's Access FAQ. Tips.
• Stephen Lebans Free Access Code, Tips and Tricks
• Doug Steele
• Pedro Gil Access Examples
• Alex Dybenko Software and Tips Repair, Compact & Backup and "Outlook97-like" Calendar
• Lynn Trapp's Code Snippets And Links including User Level Security – A synopsis of useful information regarding MS Access User Level Security
• DataStrat Data Strategies by Arvin Meyer.  Sample code including calendars, textbox searching, drawing circles and others.
• Walker Software Links and Downloads by Peter Walker (Click on Developer) Useful links, 101a Series, articles for the novice, downloads
• Dimitri Furman's code and utilities Groupwise class; TextExport class, WinTree: hierarchal Window browser; MBox: replacement for the native MS; Access MsgBox() function; BLOBs; and Windows menus.
• DaigleNet by Sandra Daigle.  Collection class for creating and managing groups of controls on a form; how to use tables and list boxes to create groups of reports and a generic report dialog.
• Brendan Reynolds Enquiry Control Manager
• Bas Cost Budde's Access 97 Development Support. Among other things a small tool in Access to export all tables and references, and optionally all data, as SQL DDL statements.   
• Ge Chen Chinese
• Gunter Avenius Individual Datenbank Programmierung Avenius German 
• Karl Donaubauer'sAccess FAQ German 
• John Viescas  Well known author
• Francisco J. Garcia Aguado Spanish  
• Juan M Afan de Ribera Spanish
• Access Freak by Oliver Stoh

Access Developer Tools

• ACCVER Allows you to work with multiple versions of MS Access databases. I've been using this one for years.
• VersionCheck utility
• MZ-Tools freeware 'all-in-one' add-in for VB and VBA
• The Access Workbench   
• Form scaling/resizing tool free and part of the excellent Access <insert your version here> Developers Handbook.

More links

• MDB Tools is a set of libraries and utilities to facilitate exporting data from MS Access databases (mdb files) without using the Microsoft DLLs. In other words they are reverse engineering the layout of the MDB file.
• Microsoft Access Files
• Allen Browne's tips for Access Users
• ACG Soft Links, sample code, tips and more stuff.
• John F. Lacher CPA Provides solutions to users of Excel and Microsoft office.
• Access Developers Network The place where Access developers talk to Access developers.
• Woody's Office PoweR Pack Useful general purpose Microsoft Office information site along with add-ins and useful weekly newsletters.
• Aldex Software hints and tips and their source code '
• GR-FX Pty Limited Tips, Tricks and Links Page (Including info on Data Mining)
• WinSite Windows 95 Archive Microsoft Access Files
• WinSite Windows NT Archive - Microsoft Access Files
  (While having separate Win 95 and Win NT doesn't make sense there are differences between them so both are are here.)
• WinSite Windows 3.1 Archive - Microsoft Access Files
• WinSite Search List A selection of useful databases and utilities
• VirtuaLaw Open Source Legal Case Management System
• Automotive Invoicing example database
• Netfolk MS Access Questions and Answer pages
• Steve Nyberg's Access Page Various free utilities including Security Permissions, Report Filtering and Password Changer and File Catalog Manager for Access
• ObjecTip displays information about any Windows object that the mouse passes over on the screen.
• AutoMessage is an automatic Windows MsgBox generator.
• Coolnerds Freebie Access Databases. Includes Zip code database.
• Free Access 97 Add-Ins from Zada Solutions
• American Information Components
• Listlocks Win32 command line utility that lists all locks placed on a file.
• DBToFile A (free) Microsoft Access Database Backup Engine
• B Pro Inc MS Access Tips
• Oldiekes Access Tips (in English and Dutch)
• DataFast Consulting Development Tools for Microsoft Access, Visual Basic and SQL Server
• Michele Amato Free and shareware utilities
• BMS Smart Indenter tidy up VBA code by rebuilding the indentation of each line. 
• EbExecuteLine Execute line of code from string variable or text box similar to Eval
• Roger's Access Library Web Page Lots of sample code.
• ADO/Access 2000 VB Code Generator generates code that you can use inside your apps to create an Access 2000 Database With ADO
• Microsoft Access Versions Information Screenshots of the boxes and info on the older versions of Access.  
• V-Tools is a free pack of nice and useful tools to enhance your developments.  
• Conquer Access RunCommand Constants by Terry Wickenden  
• Sample Code - Other Developer’s Libraries  
• Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows or Office from your registry
• Palm Operating System Databases   
• Asken Free Databases for Microsoft Access  Note that the downloadable databases are MDEs and thus are not modifiable.
• Microsoft Access Database Solutions: Database design and implementation articles, tips, tricks, code samples,Microsoft Access Help, Access FAQ's and Free downloadable database examples. 
• Viewing and Printing Access Reports with ASP and/or VisualBasic  
• aadconsulting.com MS Access Tools and Add-Ins  

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