[AccessD] One Note

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sat Jan 21 15:05:07 CST 2012


Hi Arthur,
Could  you please try to share your code snippets via Hotmail"s SkyDrive? A small sample part first...
Thank you.
Shamil


21 января 2012, 21:50 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
> For the past couple of years or so, I have been storing snippets of VBA
> code as separate files in a subdir called VBA. But in the past couple of
> months, I have switched to OneNote, and I am totally impressed with this
> mechanism. I now have a NoteBook called VBA, and it contains several
> sections, and I have copied and pasted all the former txt and bas files
> into OneNote. This solution is WAY slicker than my old method.
> 
> We all have different methods. No slight upon anyone here intended; my
> preference is to include all the required code, and only the required code,
> in any deployed solution. I do not want to burden the client with an
> "Everything Including the Kitchen Sink" solution; 70%+ of which will go
> unused in any given situation.
> 
> Call me old-school: I can deal with that. I want all the required code and
> only the required code to be deployed in any given deployment. This
> practice dates to my years in lower-level languages. I admit that. But I
> also resist the tendency to include "Everything including the Kitchen Sink"
> approaches.
> 
> Today I finally got around to importing all the snippets, previously stored
> as separate text files, into one single OneNote file. Actually, I have
> several such files now. Of interest here might be the MS-SQL file as well,
> which contains several dozen sprocs and views and so on. Another contains
> Recipes, since I am a fanatical cook; this file has two sections, Slow
> Cooking and otherwise.
> 
> The more I use OneNote, the more I'm loving it. It loads quickly and saves
> automatically. Today's project was to import all my Access and SQL snippets
> into a corresponding pair of OneNote files, and this solution is extremely
> cool.
> 
> The next logical step is to share said files with the community. No doubt,
> there will be some overlap, but assuming that I send you my OneNote VBA
> file, you could open it and import everything of interest into your own
> equivalent.
> 
> This approach strikes me as way more intelligent than than the old horse
> "create a library and set a reference to it", for a couple of reasons: 1)
> the larger the library, the longer it will take to load the module of
> interest; 2) any code not part of the app of interest ought not to be there.
> 
> Admittedly this is a tad more work than the old approach, but I like lean
> and mean versus the "junk in the trunk" approach. Call me an old-timer if
> you wish.
> 
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