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A Beginner’s Guide to Visual Basic for Applications
Recorded Webcast
Nov 16, 2010
Free
This webcast is appropriate for both Magic and C/S users.
Attend and acquire vital skills allowing you to analyze and present your MEDITECH data in a meaningful, compelling and portable format. Reach beyond the limitations of NPR Report Writer and experience MEDITECH reporting with the increased formatting control of Microsoft Office.
- Comparisons between VBA and Report Writer
- The VBA development environment
- Basic object-oriented programming concepts
- Programming logic
- Error handling
- Creating custom Excel functions
- Connecting to external data sources using Microsoft’s ActiveX Data Objects
Also see a real-world example using data pulled directly from MEDITECH. By the end of this webcast, you will have all the skills and confidence you need to start experimenting with your own VBA scripts.
Presenter Biography:
Randy Showalter, a product evangelist at Interface People, has spent most of his career engaged in IT initiatives in healthcare organizations. An electrical engineer by training, he has had exposure to 13 unique hospital environments as a research manager, database developer and MEDITECH analyst supporting PHA, LAB, ABS, MRI, NUR (including S&S) and other modules. Randy has extensive experience developing in VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, VBA, PHP, C and SQL Server and has created applications for several SQL platforms and ODBC compatible systems including MEDITECH. A published research author, Randy counts among his other accomplishments teaching, consulting work in the telecommunications industry and online application development for private clients.