October 2009 - Posts
John Durant from the Office Developer marketing team is blogging about why VBA still makes sense . I expect the Access community is interested in what he has to say. Here is a little taste of the article: Not infrequently I am asked, “So, should I use
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Today's guest blogger is Michael Merlin, Lead Software Developer at Electronic Communities . I recently wasted an hour trying to set a field's Back Color property to the hex code generated by the color picker. I figured it out after some searching, but
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Excel MVP Michael Alexander wanted to share this tip about running an Access parameter query from Excel. He describes the problem thusly: An Access parameter query is a kind of interactive query that prompts you for criteria before the query is run. Parameter
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Today’s guest writer is Richard Fennell from Black Marble. Richard is engineering director for Black Marble, hard core .NET developer, and MVP for Team Systems. Black Marble does a lot of custom SharePoint development and sell few accelerator kits. Black
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Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ . If you have a form that contains subdatasheets, you can use the following
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There are a couple big announcements happening today for the Access community. In partnership with Channel 9 we are launching a new show called The Access Show . It will feature Ryan McMinn, myself and others from the team. We will talk in-depth about
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There is a good article by Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley about SharePoint from a Microsoft’s business perspective . Some key points worth highlighting: SharePoint is the fastest growing server product at Microsoft contributing over $1 billion in revenue.
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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. I have been using the ribbon for
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Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . A few months ago I purchased the rights to publish the Smart Access magazine online and it is from that collection that
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In our never-ending quest to spread the word about Microsoft Access, we now have an official fan page on Facebook! Our news feed includes links to articles on MSDN, TechNet, and Office Online, as well as posts on this blog. You can choose to see our posts
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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. Regularly when we create databases
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Today’s guest writer is Aaron Hafele from the Access Product Support team. In previous editions of this blog, Clint has pointed out a couple of things that, as a support engineer, I believe bear repeating. One in particular has to do with performance
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This request came in from Gisli one of our Technical Advisors at MSFT. I’ve been asked by a collection of UN organizations that handle disaster response around the world if we would be able to provide training material (including recorded webcasts, on-line
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MSDN writer Sal Ricciardi alerted us to the availability of 3 new articles on MSDN, two written by Luke Chung of FMS Inc. , and one co-written by Luke Chung and Dan Haught. Title Author(s) Performance Tips To Speed Up Your Access 2007 Database Luke Chung
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Access 2007 introduced a new concept called Layouts . The most useful scenario for the feature was tabular reports. It makes it very easy to resize and rearrange columns compared to the pre-Access 2007 days with absolute position. Layouts in Access 2010
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the Office 2010 Engineering blog has a good post from Maithili about trusted documents . We implemented this security feature in Access as well. What it means is that you can now trust an individual database without having to put it into a trusted folder.
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