3rd Party API - Can Access 2010 handle this? (1 Viewer)

[ian_w]

Hi,

Looking at writing a new module that uses an API from one of our suppliers.

Can an API from a 3rd party be bolted in to Access 2010 / VBA? It's going to call a webservice and uses XML.

Sorry for the vagueness, not got a lot of info at the minute but don't want to spend to long looking at it if I will be stopped on the first step

 

[plog]

Yes. 3rd party APIs are never fun, but VBA should be able to use it. I've used Google Maps API inside VBA before as well as some simple web scraping.

 

[ian_w]

Great, I am used to everything being a little more complicated in good old VBA

Thanks

 

[Phil Cee]

Yes. 3rd party APIs are never fun, but VBA should be able to use it. I've used Google Maps API inside VBA before as well as some simple web scraping.

plog / ian_w: I've got to do something which sounds very similar at the moment, could either of you offer any advice on how to go about it?

Thanks,

Phil