How do you use version control with Access development?

Question

I\'m involved with updating an Access solution. It has a good amount of VBA, a number of queries, a small amount of tables, and a few forms for data entry & report gene

Answer 1

Olivers answer rocks, but the CurrentProject reference was not working for me. I ended up ripping the guts out of the middle of his export and replacing it with this, based on a similar solution by Arvin Meyer. Has the advantage of exporting Queries if you are using an mdb instead of an adp.

' Writes database componenets to a series of text files
' @author  Arvin Meyer
' @date    June 02, 1999
Function DocDatabase(oApp)
    Dim dbs 
    Dim cnt 
    Dim doc 
    Dim i
    Dim prefix
    Dim dctDelete
    Dim docName

    Const acQuery = 1

    Set dctDelete = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

    Set dbs = oApp.CurrentDb() ' use CurrentDb() to refresh Collections
    Set cnt = dbs.Containers("Forms")
    prefix = oApp.CurrentProject.Path & "\"
    For Each doc In cnt.Documents
        oApp.SaveAsText acForm, doc.Name, prefix & doc.Name & ".frm"
        dctDelete.Add "frm_" & doc.Name, acForm
    Next

    Set cnt = dbs.Containers("Reports")
    For Each doc In cnt.Documents
        oApp.SaveAsText acReport, doc.Name, prefix & doc.Name & ".rpt"
        dctDelete.Add "rpt_" & doc.Name, acReport
    Next

    Set cnt = dbs.Containers("Scripts")
    For Each doc In cnt.Documents
        oApp.SaveAsText acMacro, doc.Name, prefix & doc.Name & ".vbs"
        dctDelete.Add "vbs_" & doc.Name, acMacro
    Next

    Set cnt = dbs.Containers("Modules")
    For Each doc In cnt.Documents
        oApp.SaveAsText acModule, doc.Name, prefix & doc.Name & ".bas"
        dctDelete.Add "bas_" & doc.Name, acModule
    Next

    For i = 0 To dbs.QueryDefs.Count - 1
        oApp.SaveAsText acQuery, dbs.QueryDefs(i).Name, prefix & dbs.QueryDefs(i).Name & ".txt"
        dctDelete.Add "qry_" & dbs.QueryDefs(i).Name, acQuery
    Next

    WScript.Echo "deleting " & dctDelete.Count & " objects."
    For Each docName In dctDelete
        WScript.Echo "  " & Mid(docName, 5)
        oApp.DoCmd.DeleteObject dctDelete(docName), Mid(docName, 5)
    Next

    Set doc = Nothing
    Set cnt = Nothing
    Set dbs = Nothing
    Set dctDelete = Nothing

End Function