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Tell us how you organize code snippets
12 March 08 08:44 PM
Many of the Access developers I have meet have a system for organizing code snippets. You know, the common fragments of code that are reuse for project after project. We are interested in learning more about readers of this blog organize code that is Read More...
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Calling all Access book authors
06 March 08 09:01 AM
One thing I have learned over the years of shipping Access is that book authors turn out to be some of the best sources of feedback on our future plans and a steady stream of bugs. Last release Jeff Conrad, John Viescas, Roger Jennings, and Martin Reid Read More...
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VBA in Office 14
17 January 08 12:27 PM
A few readers have recently expressed concern and anxiety about an article published by The Register . Particularly, “VBA will disappear completely when Office 2007 for Windows is replaced, sometime around 2009.” As someone who is working everyday on Read More...
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Access in Chicago
30 November 07 11:18 PM
One of my Access PM compatriots, Steve Greenberg, asked if I would share this with you folks: Hello, My name is Steven Greenberg and I’m a Program Manager on the Microsoft Access team. I’ve been at Microsoft for seven years, and I transitioned over to Read More...
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Product Team Status Update
27 November 07 05:43 PM
We're finally at a point in the project schedule where the bulk of work is shifting from PMs over to the engineers to get the actual work done, which means I'm going to have some free time to begin working on blog content again! On the subject of Access Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 29 Comments    
Meet The Access Team at the 2008 Office DevCon in San Jose
25 October 07 07:37 AM
Some members of the Access team are going to be attending the 2008 Office Developer Conference being held in San Jose, CA from Feb 10-13. It will still be pretty early for us to be talking about the next version so most of the content will be 2007 focused, Read More...
Postedby Zac Woodall | 2 Comments    
Do you sell and Access application?
12 October 07 09:01 AM
The Microsoft Access team is evaluating opportunities to help application developers and consultants grow their businesses and enable an even broader distribution of custom Access applications. If you have an Access application that you sell, tell us Read More...
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A chance to influence the direction of Access
11 October 07 05:25 PM
A great opportunity has just come up for you folks to get some feedback into the Access dev process. Dany Hoter, one of our product planners who is studying the Access business, is interested in talking to Access developers to understand better the kind Read More...
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Better Looking Forms & Reports, Faster
25 April 06 02:53 PM
Building modern looking data forms & reports in Access 2003 can be difficult. Doing the heavy lifting is easy - there are great tools for building the data-bound portions of the form - but making the interface look great can be a challenge and can Read More...
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