ACCESS DEVELOPMENT
Determine the User's Screen Characteristics in Microsoft Access
The first step in managing the user's display is finding out what settings are in effect. Here's a class to get that information for you, along with the underlying Windows' API calls if you want to do it yourself.
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When you switch development environments daily, working one day in Visual Basic 6.0, and the next in Access, for example, you might find yourself suffering from a true cognitive dissonance; built-in objects you used yesterday in VB simply don't exist in Access' implementation of VBA. Here's a workaround.
Technical Editor Ken Getz is a programmer, technical writer, educator,
and senior consultant with MCW Technologies. He's a lead courseware
author and presenter, he develops custom Windows and Web applications and tools using Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, and he's been a Microsoft MVP award winner since the program began. Ken is a frequent speaker at Microsoft events, ADVISOR SUMMIT, and other technical conferences. He's co-author of ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart, Access Developer's Handbook series, and VBA Developer's Handbook. http://www.mcwtech.com/cs/blogs/keng