May 2009 - Posts
I’m pleased to announce the Access team is taking nominations to participate in the Office 2010 Technical Beta program. We expect availability of our first beta release, known as Technical Preview, in the month of July. The team is excited to get feedback
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Today’s guest blogger is Joel Graff. Joel is a field engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) . He’s sharing how he utilized Access to prove the efficiency of their drivers and equipment in managing winter road conditions. This last
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Mike Hnatt at Gladstone Solutions has a nifty Report Writer utility, available at http://gladstonesolutions.com/default.aspx . The utility lets you create reports and mailing labels quickly and easily, just by stepping through a few wizard-like screens.
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Recently, there was a thread on UtterAccess that I thought might be helpful to more people. The poster radish asks: I'd like to change the color of a control then be able to change it back to its original color. If I wanted to use the theme's highlight
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Recently I was asked the following question: I am looking to get an understanding of the internal operations during an Access 2007 synchronize execution. I have just been exposed to a SharePoint MOSS and Access 2007 environment where at times the normal
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As a young teenager I use to show goats at the Utah County and Utah State fairs. My parents would park our family trailer at the fair grounds and let my brother and me spend the week taking caring for the animals and hanging around the fairgrounds—it
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Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. When you're designing a form or report,
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I grew up on a farm and have a soft spot in my heart for people that work with animals. I recently came across great looking apps for managing horses and cattle. People that raise animals know that good record keeping is fundamental to a successful operation.
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Wayne Phillips from EverythingAccess recently sent us mail announcing a special for our blog readers: The product, SimplyVBA Global Error Handler , offers a revolutionary way of catching VBA errors on a global scale throughout your project without having
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Say you need a combo box that is always populated with the last day of the current month, as well as the last days next five months. For example, in May, you want it to look like this: Then, in June, you want the choices to automatically roll over so
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Ken Getz has authored another Visual How-to adapted from the Access Cookbook . This one’s about creating combo boxes that allow the user to specify a null, or “not applicable” value . Here’s the overview: Sometimes Access developers must create applications
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Today’s guest blogger is Michael Groh, co-author of the popular Access 2007 Bible . I often use hidden controls on Access forms and reports to hold intermediate values, temporary "flag" values, and the like. Because these controls are invisible
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Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking to a great group of people from the Portland Access User Group (PAUG) at their annual conference. The conference brings together people from different backgrounds using Access in various capacities. It’s
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There are a few good sessions that Access developers might find interesting at TechEd 2009 this year (May 11-15). I always enjoy hearing Mary, Stephen, Adam, and Luke—great speakers with good content. DAT312: Solve Problems without Spending Money: Microsoft
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I just noticed a new article from Ken Getz about running applications from Access on MSDN. This was adapted from his Access Cookbook. Here is the intro: Sometimes, from within your Microsoft Office Access 2007 application, you need to run another application
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Today’s guest blogger is Michael Groh, co-author of the popular Access 2007 Bible . Most of us, when faced with a failure in a large procedure, resort to the usual techniques for discovering the cause of the bug. The scenario here is that you've got some
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