MsgBox “Hello world!”
VBA, Visual Basic for Applications, is quite possibly the worst “programming language” I’ve ever had the horrific indignity of working with. The documentation is non-existent. The developer community is a stew of miscreant “Access developers” who don’t know anything about databases or “Database developers” who have no inclination for user interface.
Somehow, This is my job now. Building an Access interface for an extremely complex and robust database I created in PostgreSQL. In nearly daily battles, I encounter (or at least foresee) implementation problems which I inevitably must face. I figure I’ll share my findings here to spare someone the trouble.
Disclaimer: I am not an Access developer, or VB programmer, or database guru. I’m a grad student in Computational Science who some how ended up in this job.