n reply to your 4 questions:
a) Yes: VB is the same as VBA when it comes to modules, procedures,
variables, loops, branches, operators, and many functions.
b) As above.
c) There is some similarity between VB forms/controls and Access
forms/controls, but they are different in crucial ways. VB forms lack the
core functionality you are used to in Access: e.g.:
- the form's events are different (Dirty, BeforeUpdate);
- the controls are different (e.g. Text verses Value properties);
- VB lacks subforms for handling the related data so easily.
VB lacks the Access reports completely.
It also lacks the table and query design interface Access has.
Building a VB 6 application is therefore a completely different proposition
than building an Access application. Since Access gives you data-centric
controls, forms, reports, and table and query designers, doing the same job
in VB will take you much longer.
d) Since Access and VB are different beasts, used for different purposes, I
don't have links that do exactly what you ask. But here's some that will
give you info on VB:
http://www.mvps.org/vb/index2.html?samples.htm
http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/
http://www.xbeat.net/vbspeed/
--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
"Irshad Alam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Could you all please advise me the basic difference between the Visual
> basic
> 6 and Microsoft Access VBA.
>
> I am working on Microsoft Access programming from last few years and very
> much fimiliar with Access VBA. Now I am planning to start with Visual
> Basic
> 6, I have following question in my mind :
> a) Will the VBA will give an advantage to understand the Visual Basic 6
> programming. b) Will I able to work on Visual Basic 6 easily OR its
> entirely
> different method of programming.
> C)Are the objects of Visual basic same like forms,reports,query,table
> D) On which web site I am find more information of the basic differences
> of
> both.
>
> Thanking you all for the supports you people provide for the access users.
>
> Regards.
>
> Irshad
Microsoft Visual Web Developer focuses on the tools required to develop Web applications and is fully incorporated into Microsoft Visual Studio itself. Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express edition is a separate product that makes use of the same integrated development environment as Microsoft Visual Studio itself, but has a more limited set of language features.
Oracle is a RDBMS software, means, Oracle holds the database (data created/updated using application). Visual basic is tool to develop applications & this is from Microsoft. You can write programs/application to access the data from the RDBMS like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, etc. Since the functionality differs (i.e. Oracle = RDBMS & Visual basic =Application development Tool) for the two software applications, "which one is the best" can not be answered.
Microsoft is the developer of Visual Basic.
Microsoft has Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and (in beta) 2010. There are also older versions. There is no Visual Studio 2007. (Are you talking about Office 2007?)
Visual basic is a programming language from Microsoft. Some of its parts include data access objects, ActiveX data objects, and remote data objects. Their function is to provide access to databases.
Rick Dobson has written: 'Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET' -- subject(s): Microsoft Visual BASIC, Microsoft .NET Framework, Client/server computing, SQL server 'Microsoft Access Version 2002 Core Reference' 'Programacion Avanzada Con Microsoft Office Access 2003' '1-2-3 Secrets' 'Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003 (Core Reference)' -- subject(s): Microsoft Access 'Professional SQL server development with Access 2000' -- subject(s): Database management, Microsoft Access, SQL server
Visual Basic is more like a scripting language used to get additional functionality from Microsoft applications such as its Office Suite. On the other hand Visual Studio is a developement environment used to create full fledge Microsoft Applications. These applications when compiled and deployed can run independent of any other applications.
Microsoft is the developer of visual basic
Evan Callahan has written: 'The Power of Intranets' 'Programacion Con Microsoft Access 2000' 'Microsoft Access 2000/Visual Basic for Applications Fundamentals'
Firstly the UI at the start but also parallel computing and Azure services.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer focuses on the tools required to develop Web applications and is fully incorporated into Microsoft Visual Studio itself. Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express edition is a separate product that makes use of the same integrated development environment as Microsoft Visual Studio itself, but has a more limited set of language features.
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Visual Basic was created by a team at Microsoft.
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe was created in 1994.
Oracle is a RDBMS software, means, Oracle holds the database (data created/updated using application). Visual basic is tool to develop applications & this is from Microsoft. You can write programs/application to access the data from the RDBMS like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, etc. Since the functionality differs (i.e. Oracle = RDBMS & Visual basic =Application development Tool) for the two software applications, "which one is the best" can not be answered.
Microsoft Visual Studio has been written in Visual C++ and Visual C#
using ADO class or data control activeX object.