Access Europe User Group - Wed 8 Jan: Developing COM Add-Ins for Access (Philipp Stiefel)

[isladogs]

The next Access Europe User Group meeting will be on Wednesday 8 Jan 2025 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC) and finishing by 19:30 (7.30PM).
Note that the date is one week later than normal to avoid clashing with New Year celebrations.

In this presentation, former MVP, Philipp Stiefel will demonstrate how to develop COM add-ins for Microsoft Access.

COM add-ins can be used to extend the development environment of Microsoft Access with additional functionality.

Philipp will show the key elements of creating COM add-ins for Microsoft Access.
The same principles can also be applied to create COM add-ins for other Microsoft Office desktop applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

The add-in demos will be in Visual Basic .Net, but the key concepts are independent of the programming language for implementation.

Questions answered by this presentation include:
• What is COM?
• What are add-ins for Microsoft Access?
• What’s the difference between COM add-ins and “classic“ Access add-ins?
• What is the role of the Windows Registry with COM add-ins?
• How to integrate add-in functionality into Microsoft Access?

I hope you will join us on Wed 8 Jan for this session. For local start times, please check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com

Please also download and import this iCalendar (.ics) file to your calendar application e.g. Outlook.
Doing this will add a recurring event for the first Wed of each month at the correct time for your location/time zone.

The meeting will again be held on Zoom. When the time comes, you can connect using Join Zoom Meeting.
If you are asked, use: Meeting ID: 924 3129 5683 ; Passcode: 661210

 

[strive4peace]

thanks Colin @isladogs, Philipp @sonic8 is amazing -- marked my calendar. I look forward to learning from him.

 

[isladogs]

REMINDER:
The Access Europe User Group meeting today (Wed 8 Jan) will be led by Philipp Stiefel: Developing COM Add-Ins for Microsoft Access
The meeting will start at 18:00 UK time (UTC). I hope to see lots of you there.

At the end of each meeting, the following month's presenter gives a brief outline of the next session
That will be John Mallinson who will be demonstrating his excellent VBE_Extras add-in with Access at the meeting on Wed 5 Feb.

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[isladogs]

The video of Philipp Stiefel's superb presentation on COM Add-Ins to the Access Europe User Group is now available on YouTube:

A PDF of the presentation slides is now available to download from:

Developing COM Add-Ins for Microsoft Access

In this presentation Philipp Stiefel will show the key elements of creating COM add-ins for Microsoft Access. The same principles can also be applied to create COM add-ins for other Microsoft Office desktop applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

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Enjoy!