Microsoft Access has always played an important role in developing data-centric applications for the Windows platform. Access 2003 is truly a leap forward from the previous two versions and has morphed into a Web-accessible multiuser database. Access 2003 is integrated with Windows 2003 Server's Windows SharePoint Services, which allows users to easily connect to an Access application from the Web. In previous versions, Access users relied on code generated from Forms to create interactive Web pages. This process required considerable server-side code to bridge the functionality of a Web Form with a database. Forms did not translate well to the Web in either HTML or ASP.
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