Pre printed forms and data (Transfering from Access to VB)

[mondeoman]

Some 8 years ago I wrote an MS Access database (no really this is a VB question) with various reports that allowed the user to input customer information and then allowed the admin staff to print off a form with the relevant data on specific areas of the form. This database has now come to the end of its useful life – particularly as MS is no longer supporting this version of Access and I need to rebuild a programme that does the same job. The beauty about Access was that you could build reports and select options that only printed the data rather than the form which is a key element of this programme as the user uses pre printed forms, The problem is that I don’t want to use Access and I trying to learn VB 2008 Express Edition. My questions are this:

1. Can I build this type of programme in VB 2008 Express Edition?
2. I am happy about building the database but how can I build a form where only the database data is printed and not the form detail itself?

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

 

[timfoster]

The easiest way to do this would be to build it as a web based app and use a stylesheet class to define where/when it prints.

 

[mondeoman]

That sounds like good advice. Can you point me the the direction of tutorials, videos etc where I can learn how to do this? Building the MySQL database is not a problem it is the stylsheet element that would be helpful.