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Foil 25 Access as an Automation Client-I

From Overview of Microsoft Access used with Active Server Pages(ASP) CPS616 Technologies of Information Age -- Spring 1998. by Nancy McCracken and Sangetta Aggarwal


Automation is a technology that allows two separate applications components to communicate with each other as either data exchanges or commands issued by one component for the other to perform.
It requires a client and a server. The client uses the services of an automation server. It implements a development language used to write code to control the server. Capacity to use pre-built, robust and debugged software components in applications.
Automation Clients are Access, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visual Basic, and any application supporting VBA.
Sessions begin with the client applications creating an object, i.e. establishing a conversation with the server application and telling it which of its objects are required to be controlled.



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