Overview of Access 12

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Toby Getsch — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:57:18 GMT

Thanks Erik. Also, a PDC05 presentation is available too. Clint Covington did a good job of covering a lot of info, much like you did here in this post. Thanks Access Team for starting to bring us all up to speed.

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/OFF/OFF307_files/Default.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1

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Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:58:14 GMT

This is great! It will certainly help to keep me working in Access, rather than switching to .NET (expect for add-ins and Task Panes,of course).

Do all of these new features also apply to ADPs?????

Regarding a previous post that inferred that the new Rich Text control was HTML-based - I sure hope you're going to have an rtf option for those of us with tons of rtf data!

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Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:01:32 GMT

Will the new reports support Pivot Table (and Pivot chart) formating? Will it support dragging columns and totals to pivot the data?
It would be great to integrate the current Pivot table/chart features into the report writer.

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Erik Rucker — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:17:53 GMT

Most of the design-time features will apply to ADP's as well as regular Access databases. Some of the stuff makes no sense in the ADP space, so won't apply.

The pivot table & chart reports are essentially the same as they were before - we'd love to have updated them but just ran out of time.

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Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:47:05 GMT

How about a few words on ease of deployment/ automatic update scenarios for developers? What will be in the new Developers' toolkit? Can you discuss any ADP-specific functionality? ADP Integration with SQL Server 2005?

Do the many-many join interface features make it into ADPs? Does the attachment data type make it into ADPs?

Does the new Rich text control follow the RTF 2.0 spec? (I sure hope so, or else I'm in big trouble).

Can a form be saved as a .NET WebForm?

Overall, I'm very pleased with this information, but the devil is in the details....

What about VBA/.NET?

Sascha Trowitzsch — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:25:18 GMT

I think I've read nearly any available material concerning A12 but couldn't find clear statements about the future of VBA. I learned that the new UI will be expansible through addins and managed code (VSTO) but will there be futher integration of .NET in the development environment? Will there be an updated VBA editor? Or does it switch to VB.NET?
I think that many access developers would appreciate to know if they should begin to invest in sharpening their skills programming .NET right NOW...

Thanks for the blog, S.T.

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Fred Boer — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:43:25 GMT

I am the Teacher-Librarian at a school for Blind and Visually Impaired students. I have used Access in my computer classes and to develop a library maintenance and online catalogue. I was pleased to see that this will be "the most accessible release of Access yet...". Thank you for giving this aspect of the program attention; I look forward to seeing how it works in practice!

If you care to donate a copy of a developer's edition to my school, I'd be happy to give you a consumer report! ;)

Thanks for the support!

Fred

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Costas Philippides — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:21:46 GMT

How about SQL Server integration? Yes, it's nice to talk about the look and feel, but where are the programmability features? After all, people who take the time to research blogs about the future of Access are not your average run-of-the-mill user, but most likely some experienced programmer or software engineer who develops serious applications and would like to see Access's capabilities on that front.

Accessibility Improvements in Reports

Third Of Five — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:02:23 GMT

As Erik hinted, in Access 2007 we will allows a new mode for Reports called "Report Browse". By "mode"...

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twad — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:49:14 GMT

Will the new Access 2007 have the ability to create Data Access Page like the Access XP, 2002 and 2003 versions? This capability is one of the best features of Access. If it is not going forward what will be the replacement.

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Chris — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:14:37 GMT

I would also like to know if DAP's will be offered in this new version? If not, will we still be able to modify pages already created in prior versions?

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Paul Engerman — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:13:08 GMT

Is there any way to use a rich text field in an Access 2007 form if you are linking to a SQL 2005 database?