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Access Developer Extensions 2007 Updates
Access Developer Extensions 2007 has been updated and is now live on Microsoft.com. Here is a link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d96a8358-ece4-4bee-a844-f81856dceb67 Highlights of the updates: Package Solution Wizard A wizard 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...
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...
2007 SP1 is Ready!!
At last, the long wait is over, get yours today ! I definitely recommend this upgrade to all 2007 users. The team has done a lot of work to improve performance, security, and stability over the original release, which you can get a hold of by installing Read More...
Access Ribbon Customizer
One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command Read More...
PDF & XPS Now supported in Access Runtime!
Great news, you can now redistribute and use the PDF and XPS addin with your Runtime solution. Our download page has been updated to reflect this fact. Best of all, you don't need a new copy of the runtime to take advantage of this. The Runtime's code Read More...
Access Database Engine Redistributable
I was looking for this in search results today and realized that it isn't showing up in the rankings (or maybe it does, but the name isn't very intuitive). The new Access 2007 database engine (which reads and writes .accdb files) is available in redistributable Read More...
Access Runtime Re-released
We've finally gotten the runtime re-released and its available on the web at the location below. We've nailed the issues down and it will stay available at this point. My appologies I didn't get this posted over the weekend - I was away without net access Read More...
Automated front-end management and publishing
One of the Access MVPs from Canada has a great tool for helping to manage and publish Front End database apps. For those of you who are familiar with the process of front-ending, this is a real time saver, and he makes it available for free (thanks Tony!). Read More...
Ribbon Customizer
For those of you who have been struggling a little with Ribbon customization in Access 2007 and miss the old world of CommandBars where you could design the command experience directly through the UI, Patrick Schmid has a cool add-in that allows you to Read More...
Access 2007 Runtime and Developer Extension will be Free
Sorry for the lack of posts for the last while - we've been buried getting the next version of Access rolling. Clint Covington posted this on his blog the other day, but it belongs here as well, so here's the same information. I'll have a short series Read More...
A Tool for Building Custom AutoFormats
In the last post , I discussed the new AutoFormats in Access 2007. In this post, I'll describe more about how they work and provide a tool that allows you to create your own formats and customize the ribbon gallery of formats. AutoFormat Storage Access Read More...
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