Hello,
Does anyone know of any orientation/tutorial that helps transition the MS Access developer to the Alpha 5 environment; mainly with regards to VBA to XBasic (code syntax/similarity, where to create event based events, debug windows, watch events, etc, etc, etc...).
I'm sure what I'm asking probably doesn't exists, but if someone has the time and knows both (Access and A5 very well) maybe it will aid the transition of the new A5 user to A5. It would be useful as a video (probably only a few minutes. Dont' get me wrong, Selwyn's Videos are great, however, after spending 15 years (prob more) with developing in access I'm stilling finding some of the basics with the a5 program usage to be a steep learning curve, and then find myself reverting to 'how I would do it access', mainly as i have not found the similarity in A5 (yet).
For example, I recently posted a question to the forum for help with basic coding. What I wanted to do was update a field, on a detail view (access = form), and then update another value on that detail view; additionally I realized that I am still unclear of when do we use JS or XBasic? how do we use select statements--or what is the XBasic syntax equivalent.
Someone could make some good money with a mini-series of "Transitioning to Alpha from Access"! It would only need to be a few minutes per video; and probably would only new a handful of them.
Alpha 5 is easy to use, for the most part; however, a video / tutorial would make those of us coming from different programming environments much easier. Plus i bet the sales of A5 would increase when MS Access uses get a 'good' orientation to A5 from such a video!!
Lee
Does anyone know of any orientation/tutorial that helps transition the MS Access developer to the Alpha 5 environment; mainly with regards to VBA to XBasic (code syntax/similarity, where to create event based events, debug windows, watch events, etc, etc, etc...).
I'm sure what I'm asking probably doesn't exists, but if someone has the time and knows both (Access and A5 very well) maybe it will aid the transition of the new A5 user to A5. It would be useful as a video (probably only a few minutes. Dont' get me wrong, Selwyn's Videos are great, however, after spending 15 years (prob more) with developing in access I'm stilling finding some of the basics with the a5 program usage to be a steep learning curve, and then find myself reverting to 'how I would do it access', mainly as i have not found the similarity in A5 (yet).
For example, I recently posted a question to the forum for help with basic coding. What I wanted to do was update a field, on a detail view (access = form), and then update another value on that detail view; additionally I realized that I am still unclear of when do we use JS or XBasic? how do we use select statements--or what is the XBasic syntax equivalent.
Someone could make some good money with a mini-series of "Transitioning to Alpha from Access"! It would only need to be a few minutes per video; and probably would only new a handful of them.
Alpha 5 is easy to use, for the most part; however, a video / tutorial would make those of us coming from different programming environments much easier. Plus i bet the sales of A5 would increase when MS Access uses get a 'good' orientation to A5 from such a video!!
Lee
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