What Ms Balter's book offers over most or all of the other books on the market is that Ms Balter is able to take a highly technical topic and present it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. It is a book that the reader will often want to read from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference.
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What Ms Balter's book offers over most or all of the other books on the market is that Ms Balter is able to take a highly technical topic and present it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. It is a book that the reader will often want to read from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference.Readers of Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2002 Desktop Development will learn( A thorough knowledge of Access application development.( Real-world solutions to specific development and programming problems.( Professional programming techniques backed by concise, no-nonsense explanations of the underlying theories.( Debugging and troubleshooting methods to solve problems quickly and get stalled development projects back on track.
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Alison Balter is the president of InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a computer consulting firm based in Westlake Village, California. Alison is a highly experienced independent trainer and consultant specializing in Windows applications training and development. During her 18 years in the computer industry, she has trained and consulted with many corporations and government agencies. Since Alison founded InfoTechnology Partners, Inc. (formerly Marina Consulting Group) in 1990, its client base has expanded to include major corporations and government agencies such as Shell Oil, Accenture, Northrop, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Prudential Insurance, Transamerica Insurance, Fox Broadcasting, the United States Navy, and others.
InfoTechnology Partners, Inc. is a Microsoft Certified Partner. Alison is a Microsoft Certified Professional. Alison was one of the first professionals in the computer industry to become a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD).
Alison is the author of more than 300 internationally marketed computer-training videos for KeyStone Learning Systems Corporation, including seven Access 2.0 videos, eleven Access 95 videos, thirteen Access 97 videos, eighteen Access 2000 videos, nine Visual Basic for Applications videos, and three VBScript videos.
She travels throughout North America giving training seminars in Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio.NET, Visual InterDev, and Visual Basic for Applications. She is also featured in several live satellite television broadcasts for National Technological University.
Alison is a regular contributing columnist for Access/Office/VB Advisor as well as other computer publications. She is also a regular on the Access, Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Visual InterDev national speaker circuits. She was one of four speakers on the Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0 World Tours, a seminar series co-sponsored by Application Developers Training Company and Microsoft.
Alison is also a co-author of three other Access books published by Sams Publishing: Essential Access 95, Access 95 Unleashed, and Access 97 Unleashed. An active participant in many user groups and other organizations, Alison is a past president of the Independent Computer Consultants Association of Los Angeles and of the Los Angeles Clipper UsersÕ Group.
On a personal note, Alison keeps herself busy skiing, running, lifting weights, hiking, traveling, flying, and dancing. She most enjoys spending time with her husband, Dan, their daughter Alexis, and their son Brendan.
Alison's firm, InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., is available for consulting work and on-site training in Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Visual Studio.NET, and Visual InterDev, as well as for Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2002 Server, PC networking, and Microsoft Exchange Server. Contact Alison by electronic mail at Alison@InfoTechnologyPartners.com, or visit InfoTechnology PartnersÕ Web site at www.InfoTechnologyPartners.com.
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Alison Balter is the founder of InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a computer consulting firm in California. She is a highly experienced trainer and consultant, specializing in Windows applications. During her 17 years in the computer industry, she has helped many Fortune 500 corporations as well as government agencies. The author of over 300 internationally-marketed computer training videos for KeyStone Learning Systems Corporation, Alison has also written several bestselling books for Sams Publishing.
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My Favorite Intermediate Access Reference,
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This review is from: Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development (Paperback)
I figured out the basic structure of Access (basic Tables, Queries, Forms, Macros) from the online Help files (not including the VBA and ActiveX and linking to outside data sources and stuff). Then I went to Amazon and looked for another text and bought Getz, Litwin and Gilbert. When I first got it, I didn't understand it. So I went to a local store and browsed through the books on the shelf and decided on this one. It seemed to be at about my level -- 1/3 to 1/2 of it I already knew. And having now worked with it for a few weeks, I find it to be quite good. Two other people in the office started by borrowing my Getz, and then borrowed Balter instead for the same reason. Things are pretty easy to look up in it if you're not the type to read these things cover to cover. She covers everything clearly once (not 47 times), and you can find where that place is. She doesn't assume you know what ActiveX and ADO vs. DAO are. And there are a fair number of solutions to common needs which don't have obvious solutions...
I recommend it. BTW, for you others who are new to VBA through Access, one things she doesn't say loud and clear is to avoid Access specific stuff where possible, and revert to good ole SQL. Go to the underlying table and do an update query with DoCmd.RunSQL query_name.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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The best for beginning-intermediate developers......,
By Bob Stayton (Pinehurst, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development (Paperback)
While the Getz books may be for advanced developers, Alison's books are by far the best for beginning to intermediate developers. I found her explanations and sample code to be much more appropriate for me as an intermediate developer. If you consider yourself an advanced VBA developer then maybe some of this material is too basic. BUT if you're not, you owe it to yourself to look at Alison's books. They're great! This book is actually fun to read and it has served as an excellent reference for the Access applications that I continue to create. If you use SQL Server, you also look at her Enterprise book, the companion to this one. Don't change your style, Alison! I look forward to your future works!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Going to the next level,
By Tommy Christopherson (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development (Paperback)
I am a programming consultant in the Dallas area and have programmed in MS Access since 1995 when it was a Windows 3.1 product at version 2.0. I have purchased 3 MS Access books since that time and all claimed that they were for the beginner all the way up to the advanced in skill level. The first two were helpful if you were brand new to Access, but sometimes you want to accomplish certain tasks for which there is no wizard. Looking on MSDN is, at times, a shot in the dark. I found Alison's book - "Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development" to be a perfect training guide for all and an excellent reference manual as well. I sometimes carry it to a client's office instead of my MSDN CDs. If you want to learn how to make your Access DB more professional-looking, then you should get your hands on this book.
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