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Does anyone know if the resources on the below posted site are good. Maybe
you have some experience with this group or could offer some feedback on the
value of them? Most of the time I can figure out what code is doing and
modify it to do what I need, but I struggle to create my own from scratch.
Would this help?

http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/index.html

Thanks so much!
 
I have never purchased any of their software, but I have used code from the
site (specifically error handling examples for procedure call stacks).

I was very impressed with the code, and would definately give a thumbs up to
the company. They certainly seem to know what they are about, IMO.

Another one that has impressed me alot is CPearson. It's all based on excel
VBA, but much of it can be easily modified for Access, and they are another
resource (for me anyway), that goes far beyond what can usually be found.

http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MainPage.aspx

These two companies, pearson and fms, are among some of the best that I have
come across so far. Highly recommended. I would also recommend the fms
newsletter... one of the very few that I don't mind reading.

--
Jack Leach
www.tristatemachine.com

- "A designer knows he has reached perfection not when there is nothing left
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine De Saint
Exupery
 
Doctor said:
Does anyone know if the resources on the below posted site are good. Maybe
you have some experience with this group or could offer some feedback on
the
value of them? Most of the time I can figure out what code is doing and
modify it to do what I need, but I struggle to create my own from scratch.
Would this help?

http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/index.html

Thanks so much!
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I have used some of their products and found them useful and valuable. That
said, I'm in a different situation - I prefer to write my own code and
dislike having to work with someone else's code - so I may not be the best
judge of how useful you'll find them in your particular situation.
 
Doctor said:
Does anyone know if the resources on the below posted site are good. Maybe
you have some experience with this group or could offer some feedback on the
value of them? Most of the time I can figure out what code is doing and
modify it to do what I need, but I struggle to create my own from scratch.
Would this help?

http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/index.html
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FMS is a very reputable company that sells a myriad of
programming tools. I think the tools are a little pricy,
but they definitely do what they what they are intended to
do. Whether they will help you is something I can not
assess.

Learning to write programs is something that is difficult to
do all on your own and I recommend taking some courses aimed
at the area of programming you want to do.
 
Doctor said:
Does anyone know if the resources on the below posted site are good. Maybe
you have some experience with this group or could offer some feedback on
the
value of them? Most of the time I can figure out what code is doing and
modify it to do what I need, but I struggle to create my own from scratch.
Would this help?
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I've used their Code Tools and found it useful. I now use a free-download
product from MZTools, http://www.mztools.com, for the same purposes and like
it just as well.

In the Access 97 timeframe, I tried SourceBook and was not nearly so pleased
with it -- I found it took as long to understand how to use much of their
code as it would have taken me to write and test my own, and in a few cases,
the code was inadequately tested and let some errors "fall through the
cracks". I did not attempt to review the whole product to see if that was
"more than a few" because I had real work to do and no time to waste doing
QA on Source Book.

My experiences with Total Access Analyzer were "spotty" at best. They still
sold the Access 2.0 version when we were working on Y2K remediation of a
client's Access 2.0 database; the volume of data just overwhelmed TAA and it
locked up. But, even though it was a product on their current "for sale"
list, they were not doing defect correction any more. One of my co-workers
had to create queries (which, by the way, he was able to do handily, without
them being overwhelmed or locking up) to do what TAA could not do and what
FMS was unwilling or unable to correct.

I had, and suspect I still would have, some difficulties with their
licensing provisions in cases where a prime contractor licenses the product,
and has different subcontractors in and out to use it.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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