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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 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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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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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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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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Today’s guest writer is Steve Greenberg. The recent Access 2010 Theme’s post introduced you to the new Office themes inside Access. Now let’s show you some of the advanced things you can do with themes. The controls we are about to use can all be found
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Today’s guest writers are Steve Greenberg and Viki Selca. The PMs that have lead the effort to make it easier to create great looking apps. People say “Don’t judge a book by its cover” but everyone who develops software knows that applications are judged
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Last week we outlined improvements to the Access 2010 macro designer , parameter support , and IntelliSense . These improvements build upon Access 2007 macro improvements of macro sandbox, embedded macros, TempVars, debugging, and support for error handling.
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The Expression Builder sports new features and simpler UI in Access 2010. You will spend less effort thinking about syntax and available functions/properties because IntelliSense features provide all the information you need as you type. Expression Builder
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Last week we blogged about changes to the new macro designer . I promised to write about IntelliSense but the first draft was lost in an unfortunate hard drive crash. I thought this is a good time to tell you about changes to the macro designer that encourage
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Today’s guest contributors are Kerry Westphal, Krunal Sheth, James Rivera, and Michael Tucker—from the macro designer feature crew. The Macro Designer is a revamped editor that allows you to automate repetitive tasks; wire together forms and reports
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Last week I wrote about the Office 2010 Technical Preview bevy of announcements. This post kicks off a series of conversations about what is new in Microsoft Access 2010. As a team, our passion is to help people quickly and easily create databases tailored
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