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Access Services overview and install information
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 Read More...
Download Access 2010 Public Beta today
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 Read More...
Access 2010 Create ribbon
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, Read More...
Access 2010 in the news
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 Read More...
Demo of Access 2010 room bookings database
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 Read More...
Access 2010 improved layouts
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 Read More...
Access 2010 trusted documents (or databases)
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. Read More...
Access 2010 Custom Themes
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 Read More...
Access 2010 Themes
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 Read More...
Access 2010 data macros (similar to triggers)
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. Read More...
Write expressions faster with fewer errors
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 Read More...
Set query parameters with macros
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 Read More...
Office 2010 vision posts
There are some great posts written about different investments across the suite of Office client products. Here is a quick guide to the group’s announcement: Access 2010—The 10,000 ft. View (my favorite) Excel 2010—The 10,000 ft. View What’s up with my Read More...
Send-a-smile works
The Office 2010 blog has a great post about send a smile (or some times a frown). Basically, you click on the Send-a-Smile (or frown) to send feedback directly to the team @ Microsoft. These actions can have an immediate impact on the product. Several Read More...
Access 2010—The 10,000 ft. View
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 Read More...
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