May 2008 - Posts
Here's a question that comes up from time to time. The other day, someone internally asked about the difference between using a dot "." vs. a bang "!" for control references in a form in VBA. In other words, given a form - Form1, with
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People seem to really like the Access 2007 demos we have been doing. The team has recently published three more on Office Online: Watch this: Add or remove controls from a layout Watch this: Create a form that contains a subdatasheet Watch this: Create
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KB article 950812 provide more information about a scenario where some people have reported that a compact and repair deletes their database. You can’t download the fix directly but can get it by calling CSS . This fix will be included in SP2 when that
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FYI - There is a good panel and talk at TechEd 2008 about Access and SQL Server. TechEd Online Panel _05: Are we there yet? Successfully navigating the bumpy road from Access to SQL Server - 6/3/2008 1:00PM-2:00PM Come get your SQL server migration questions
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There is a new article with video about the new anchoring functionality in Access 2007. Enjoy!
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Every now and again we get the question of "what is the difference between encryption and encoding?" This came up again today so we wanted to try to answer it more broadly. In short, the feature that we call " encryption " is a feature
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Today's guest writer is Mike Sullivan - a tester on the Access team With the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008 , we've recently received questions from several customers regarding whether or not Team Foundation Server (TFS) can act as a source
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Renaud posted some comments to the previous post about transparency forms and made some really cool enhancements to the code, along with a note about using a class module to make it easier to use. This is how I use transparency forms in my own implementations
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