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Accessing external data using the IN clause
Someone sent us a question the other day about one of my favorite dark corners in Access and we thought it might be interesting to dive into this area a little. Microsoft Access SQL supports two uses of the IN keyword. The most commonly used case is as Read More...
Dot or Bang?
Here's a question that comes up from time to time. The other day, someone internally asked about the difference between using a dot "." vs. a bang "!" for control references in a form in VBA. In other words, given a form - Form1, with Read More...
Encryption vs. Encoding
Every now and again we get the question of "what is the difference between encryption and encoding?" This came up again today so we wanted to try to answer it more broadly. In short, the feature that we call " encryption " is a feature Read More...
Access Source Code Control and Team Foundation Server
Today's guest writer is Mike Sullivan - a tester on the Access team With the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008 , we've recently received questions from several customers regarding whether or not Team Foundation Server (TFS) can act as a source Read More...
Microsoft Access Downloads in Silverlight
I ran across this new Silverlight version of the Microsoft download center this morning.  If you haven't seen Silverlight yet, it is pretty cool stuff. It is Microsoft's engine for doing rich graphics composition in the web.  Here are all the Read More...
UI Builder for Access v.3.0 Released
Brandon Smith-Daigle has recently released the 3.0 update for his UI Builder tool that helps Access developers to build customized user experiences in Forms without coding the VBA themselves.  This tool is compatible with older versions of Access Read More...
Goldsoft tools for Access Developers
Ken Hockley has recently released his Goldsoft suite.  These tools aim to increase Access developer productivity by helping to reduce the amount of time spent building necessary application plumbing so that developers can focus their effort on producing Read More...
Access 2003 SP3 hotfix rollup now available
You can find details here... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945674 [Zac] For those of you who are wondering, this is the update I've told several folks would be coming. Everyone who is running Access 2003 SP3 will probably want to apply this patch. It Read More...
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