November 2009 - Posts
Recently on The Access Show Ryan and I introduced Access Services and created a donations application that ran in the browser. I thought it would be helpful to provide some background to the vision and direction. Years ago I came across a post on UtterAccess
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Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the public beta of Access 2010, Access 2010 Runtime, and SharePoint 2010. You can download Office and SharePoint at www.microsoft.com/2010 . My July post Access 2010--The 10,000 ft. View outlined the following
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Web databases introduced a few ribbon design challenges, particularly how to present client and web create options? We wanted to make sure that people creating client objects are just as successful as web objects. When you create a new database from scratch,
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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/ . As we all know, a List Box control has a Fore Color property. It sets
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Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, a PM on the Access team responsible for Access form and report designers. If you want to build an easy to use application it always starts with a good navigation model that allows users to quickly perform the
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Today’s guest blogger is Daniel Lamarche. Daniel is the Training Director at ComboProjects , which specializes in providing custom training solutions in Microsoft Office products. I always thought it was cool to be able to sort a list by clicking the
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Today’s guest blogger is Darren Myher. Darren is the VP Operations of Blue Link Associates Limited , a Gold Certified Microsoft ISV Partner. Blue Link’s flagship product: “Blue Link Elite” is a fully integrated accounting and inventory management
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This is the second episode of The Access Show with Steve Greenberg & Ryan McMinn. They just came back from the sold-out SharePoint conference in Las Vegas where they launched Access Services and wanted to give you an update as well as introduce some
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John Durant from Office marketing is on The Knowledge Chamber with Robert Hess. He is talking about new features in Office that help developers . He starts his Access plug about 3 minutes into the talk. Good stuff. Dick Moffat who has attended several
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We received a question the other day from someone who was using the Shell function in VBA to run a command in a command prompt. The command in question was netsh dhcp , but this could apply to any number of commands. The original code was as follows:
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Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Scott Diamond. Scott is the principal of Diamond Computing Associates and the author of Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA . This is a very frequently discussed issue. But before I get into the methods, you need to understand
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In VBA, a common way to refer to the pages of a tab control is to use the Value property. However, Luke Chung, President of FMS Inc., recommends using the PageIndex property instead. Click here to find out why! Send your Power Tips to Mike and Chris at
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Johanna and I were invited to do an interview for the MSNZ podcast at the SharePoint Conference . It just got posted, hope you enjoy it :)
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Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP) has published a great video demo of an application that he build for tracking meetings rooms . He even has built a fancy calendar control that renders in the web using data macros and bound controls. it is a good example
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