Welcome to the Access 2007 Developer Reference

This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and reference documentation to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office Access 2007.

Publish date of this reference: January 2008 (version 2007)

This documentation is accessible from the following locations:

• From the product: most up-to-date version.  If you are connected to the Internet, you can view the most recent version of this reference in Access. Click Help, and in the Search box, under Content from Office Online, click Developer Reference.
• From the product: installed version.   If you are not connected to the Internet, you can still view the version of this reference that is included with your product. Click Help, and in the Search box, under Content from this computer, click Developer Reference. October 2006 (version 2007) is included with the product.
• From the MSDN Library.  To view the January 2008 version of this reference in the MSDN Library, click items in the MSDN table of contents that is displayed in the navigation pane of your browser.

This reference contains the following sections:

• What's New   Provides a list of new members by object and in alphabetical order.
• How Do I... in Access 2007   Provides a map of how-to topics for developing custom Access solutions.
• Concepts   Provides important concepts for developing custom Access solutions.
• Access Object Model Reference   Provides reference materials for the Access object model.
• Access Macro Actions   Provides documentation for all of the macro actions contained in Access.
• Microsoft Data Access Objects (DAO) Reference   Provides reference materials for the DAO object model.
• Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)   Provides reference materials for the ADO object model.
• Microsoft Jet Replication Objects (JRO)   Provides reference materials for the JRO object model.
• Microsoft Access SQL Reference   Provides reference materials for Access SQL.
• Microsoft Access Database Engine Error Reference   Provides a list of Access database engine errors.

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