January 2009 - Posts
Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, one of the newest members of the Access Program Management team. Several months ago we updated the contacts template . Because of the overwhelming positive feedback it generated we updated the Assets , Student
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Today’s guest writer is Mary Chipman. Mary is a programmer-writer for the Data Programmability team at Microsoft and co-author of the classic Microsoft Access Developer's Guide to SQL Server . Table-valued parameters (TVPs) in SQL Server 2008 provide
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Listable.org is a usefully little site where users are making and sharing lists of data. Everything from US State Names to Most Commonly Used Passwords . If you have some favorite sites for getting data, leave a comment.
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We have been getting a bunch of email from customers about using ADP’s with SQL Server 2008 and wanted to give everyone and update and some guidance. Access 2007 ADP’s will run against SQL Server 2008 but do not support designing server objects
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Recently, over 30 professional Access developers had a sneak peak at Access 14 during Access 14 Developer Kitchen . The event provided valuable insight to the Access team and resulted in some useful changes. Next is to gather feedback from Access business
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Access Developer Extensions 2007 has been updated and is now live on Microsoft.com. Here is a link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d96a8358-ece4-4bee-a844-f81856dceb67 Highlights of the updates: Package Solution Wizard A wizard
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We are always proud of the tools customers make and sell around Access. Our friend Brandon send this update in along with a special offer for the blog readers. OpenGate Software launched a new tool to help Access users create their database schema using
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A few months ago we solicited feedback about a new bug tracking template that was in development. We got lots of great feedback and I’m happy to announce the template is available in the Access Getting Started screen in the business category and on Office
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The last few days I have pinged by several people asking about the SharePoint Offline functionality in the runtime. It seems like more and more people are starting to discover the new SharePoint link table and offline functionality. The short answer is—this
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I want to thank everyone who participated in our last thread on backwards compatibility. There is lots of great discussion about how the decisions we make will impact your business. Folks are reading it and digesting the feedback. Again, thanks. Recently,
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Greg Lindhorst (Program Manager on the team) is looking for customer feedback on the impact of some new features on cross version scenarios. Love to get some feedback from the community about a few questions we have: How important is it that previous
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