October 2007 - Posts

Access : Admin tool for web apps
31 October 07 01:55 PM
A common challenge with custom web applications has always been customer maintainability. In most cases the admin interface is left until the last min of development when budget is short and all resources are tied up fixing bugs and making the end user Read More...
Postedby Ryan McMinn | 6 Comments    
Access & Ruby on Rails: Software + Services
25 October 07 08:30 AM
Prior to joining the team here this summer I was a partner in a couple app development shops in Toronto ( M7 Database & Unspace ) that specialized in a software + services approach to development. We blended Access with Ruby on Rails to create better Read More...
Postedby Ryan McMinn | 8 Comments    
Meet The Access Team at the 2008 Office DevCon in San Jose
25 October 07 07:37 AM
Some members of the Access team are going to be attending the 2008 Office Developer Conference being held in San Jose, CA from Feb 10-13. It will still be pretty early for us to be talking about the next version so most of the content will be 2007 focused, Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 2 Comments    
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Millions of blog hits and template downloads
16 October 07 09:16 AM
.style1 { font-size: 18px; } The last couple days I have stumbled across some numbers that give you an idea about the popularity of our favorite desktop engine. 3 million hits on this blog last month 2.8 million 2007 template downloads world wide since Read More...
Postedby clintc | 5 Comments    
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Do you sell and Access application?
12 October 07 09:01 AM
The Microsoft Access team is evaluating opportunities to help application developers and consultants grow their businesses and enable an even broader distribution of custom Access applications. If you have an Access application that you sell, tell us Read More...
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A chance to influence the direction of Access
11 October 07 05:25 PM
A great opportunity has just come up for you folks to get some feedback into the Access dev process. Dany Hoter, one of our product planners who is studying the Access business, is interested in talking to Access developers to understand better the kind Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 24 Comments    
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Ribbon Customization - Repurposing Commands
10 October 07 03:45 PM
Sue and I were talking the other day about Ribbon customizations with regard to some training materials that she is preparing for our support engineers. Along the way I mentioned command repurposing and how you could do some pretty cool stuff with it Read More...
Postedby robcooper | 9 Comments    
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UK Access User Group National Seminar
05 October 07 10:30 PM
Here's the overview of what's on at the UK AUG National Conference on Friday 16th November - they have tried to keep the cost down to £99 as a thank you to support over the years. Follow the link below to book online or print out a paper booking form. Read More...
Postedby clintc | 2 Comments    
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Access 2003 --> Access 2007 UI Guide
04 October 07 11:38 PM
The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 15 Comments    
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Sorting Nav Pane Objects by Description
03 October 07 06:35 PM
I've recently had some questions from users who used to sort their DBC by the description field and wanted to be able to do the same thing in the 2007 navigation pane. If you use this scenario, and you've tried in 2007, you'll know that the navigation Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 6 Comments    
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