ACC95: Where to Find Conversion Information for MS Access 95

ID: Q136133

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access 7.0

SUMMARY

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

Microsoft Access for Windows 95 version 7.0 has many enhancements, such as 32-bit architecture, Visual Basic for Applications, the Microsoft Jet database engine version 3.0, and a modified data access objects (DAO) model. Because of these changes, you may experience some incompatibilities in databases created with previous versions of Microsoft Access. This article lists sources of information about conversion and compatibility issues.

MORE INFORMATION

The most comprehensive source of information about converting databases to Microsoft Access 7.0 is the Help topic "Conversion and Compatibility Issues." The Help topic lists the following nine subtopics, which you can jump to automatically:

Converting Access Basic Code to Visual Basic

Converting Code That Calls a DLL

Converting Libraries and Add-ins

Converting Microsoft Access Tables, Forms, and Reports

Converting SendKeys Key Combinations

DAO Object Library Compatibility

Macro Actions and Methods of DoCmd Object

New Style for Intrinsic Constants

Scoping and Object Naming Compatibility

To find the "Conversion and Compatibility Issues" Help topic, search for "conversion and compatibility" using the Answer Wizard from the Microsoft Access for Windows 95 Help menu.

For information similar to the "Conversion and Compatibility" Help topic, please see Microsoft Access "Building Applications with Microsoft Access for Windows 95," version 7.0, Appendix A, "Converting or Using Applications Created in Previous Versions," pages 437-451.

For supplemental information not included in the "Conversion and Compatibility" Help topic nor in Appendix A of the "Building Applications with Microsoft Access for Windows 95" manual, please see the "Conversion and Compatibility" section in the Acreadme.txt file in your Microsoft Access for Windows 95 folder.


Keywords          : kbusage CnvOthr 
Version           : 7.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: April 17, 1999