[AccessD] Hooking into APIs of supplemental vendors

Excellent!

Not to mention that in this situation I am not really in need of anything
very complicated. 

My only concern at this point is that my client decided they did not want to
pay the service fees to this vendor, and therefore it is not time/cost
productive for me to spend time learning their tool.

Well, it might be, but it is not calculable at this point how much, and it
detracts from the project I am trying to finish.

I am going to write something in a new thread that may be a little OT, but I
am fishing for ideas and caveats from fellow programmers. I look forward to
you and others chiming in on that thread.

Bill

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 1:22 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hooking into APIs of supplemental vendors

William,

In the few instances where I have used outside api's with vba I have usually
been able to find examples written in something close to vba, like VB6 in
the old days. Now with all the internet forums there are usually examples
that I can plagiarize and leverage for my purposes. Documentation can be
obscure until you have something to compare it to.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
(VBACreations.Com)
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 1:27 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Hooking into APIs of supplemental vendors

When a company offers a service - in my case, the company I am dealing with
has offered to allow me to use their API to have my application submit MMS
and SMS messages - I get a sense that I am supposed, as a programmer, to
know how to make the features in their application(s) a part of the
program(s) I write. I know this happens all the time in the integrative
development marketplace, but since I have programmed in 95% VBA, I don't
really have the foggiest idea what they are talking about when they say "Our
API will do ______________ for you, feel free to download a free trial and
______________..." [get started using it??]

I assume maybe all their stuff is well documented, but I feel too slow and
stupid to understand documentation anymore and the "getting up to speed"
factor is in line with teaching an old dog new tricks. Are they simple
tricks? In other words, is this all supposed to be like plug and play
programming, or am I supposed to be learning entirely new platforms in order
to get acquainted with different vendors' functionality? I suppose maybe it
is a case by case thing?



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