You may have noticed that things have been quiet for a while on this blog, well here is why: Microsoft Office Accounting will no longer be distributed after November 16, 2009. As a consequence I have moved on to new challenges within Microsoft...

Well it is time for a new version of the us version of Microsoft Office Accounting. Part of the big news this year is that existing Professional users can upgrade for free! Check out this site for more detail . Naturally users of the Express version can...

A few people have had this problem now: They create a report add-in for Office Accounting but when they deploy to the end users the reports does not show up in the menu. One of those ”but it works for me!!” problems… A typical reason can be that...

I just got this question: “The problem is that I am creating a new custom report using the INativeReportV2 interface. I am trying to apply Aging Options Filter to the report. The problem is, how I do capture those values in the CreateDesign method...

I was asked how you can access the data in an Office Accounting report in code. As the code shows below this is very simple – you just have to remember a few things: · There is no guarantee that the columns in the data view won’t change between...

I just wanted to let you know that my friend John Thuneby has started a new blog about Office Accounting . My guess is that he will write more about the functionality in the application and less about the technical stuff. I know that John welcomes feedback...

I just saw this article on how to set up Office Accounting for multiple users. As I know this is a topic that people has a lot of questions about I thought I would post a link to it... At the same time you can find a lot of usefull information in the...

It has been a while since my last post and I have gotten a few questions. One question was related to exporting reports to Excel. This is actually pretty simple; you may have noticed the IReportExportToExcelV2 interface. This is the key to this...

Time for some exciting news on brand new Office Accounting versions!! Today we are releasing the new Office Accounting 2008. Among the great news we are now releasing new versions; besides the new US version we have now added a new US-Spanish version...

The question about the ReportColumnType came up in a comment for a prior post, and yeah I guess it’s fair that I tell you about it :o) First a brief description of the values, from the quick overview you can see that you really do not have that...

What if I have created a INativeReport and I want to filter it, but the build in filters are not exactly what I need? Well you can create your own filters! It does require some coding though (but we like code, right?). As an example let’s...

Ok - it’s been way too long since my last post, and I now feel forced to cover a topic that several people has asked me: “native reports are great and all, but can I add a total to my report”. The good news is the answer is yes, the bad news...

I was asked If you need a new Report add-in for each report you want to add. I think it is a good question and one of the things you do not get for free in you generate your reports using the templates (there I had a chance to mention it again) ...

I know I'm a little late with this announcement, but for those who haven't seen it we now have a service pack ready for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F5A69C78-39A0-4B10-9072-456031457EB5&displaylang=en ...

Just thought I would post this info as I have been talking to some people that did not have all the MS SQL tools installed and then did not know how to get performance information out of the server … maybe just maybe other people in the world would have...

Previously I did a post with a few general performance tips for Office Accounting . I just saw a question on the newsgroup about performance on a SQL Server; basically the application was running very slow even though the server machine was a very...

Some things are more expensive than others when using the Office Accounting SDK, here is a few tips I have found along the way: If doing bulk inserts or updates you will probably get better performance if you disable refreshing from the database...

Just noticed this blog post by Rajat Taneja. http://blogs.msdn.com/rajattaneja/archive/2007/02/15/one-million-downloads-of-office-accounting-express-in-90-days.aspx Pretty cool!!

I got a comment on one of the prior post asking if I would create a new post on how to query the data in the Office Accounting database directly, thank you for the question. I would like to encourage other readers to ask for other posts on other things...

I have been asked how to do these things if you are a VB programmer. Well my very first comment you may have guessed already :o) Use the templates! – yes that’s right, some sweet soul has created templates for the VB side of things as well. ...

In my last post I showed that you can add a native report to Office Accounting. but really the report I created in my example was kind of bla – don’t you think? Let’s try to add a little meat to the report! Filtering To add filters to the...

Ok, I’m back from vacation so let’s take a look at the next thing you can do with the report SDK; adding native reports. A native report is a report that will run in the Office Accounting report engine and it will be shown in the native Office Accounting...

This is the most important post ever - for me at least :o) I’ll be on vacation the next couple of weeks, so if you have comments or questions to any of the posts expect a small wait before I reply… I promise that when I come back I will have...

In the 2007 version of Office Accounting we have added a reporting SDK. With this SDK you now have some new opportunities for integrating to the application: · Creating new report executors · Creating new native reports · Creating report UI add...

I promised in my first post that I would talk a bit about performance, I do have some tips and the list will probably grow over time, however a lot of things will affect the performance on your individual PC, so it is very hard to give hard advice on...