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Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective
Templates: Quick Overview of SaveAsText and LoadFromText (aka let’s get boring again)
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over 6 years ago
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Before we dive into the way the Access Objects are persisted in the Access 2007 template files, I thought it would be best if we talked briefly about the Application.SaveAsText and Application.LoadFromText methods and what they generate and read in, respectively...
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Happy Birthday
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over 6 years ago
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It would be a shame to miss noting this blog's first birthday. Or at least it's first post 's first birthday. Do you feel this blog has helped you? Why do you read it? What could be improved? Any thoughts? Please drop a comment and let...
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Templates: The Meat of the ACCDT Template Files
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over 6 years ago
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In my previous post, we cracked open an Access 2007 template file. For this post, I’d like to delve into the / template/database folder, where pretty much all the template content resides. In the root of this folder you will notice four files...
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Templates: Cracking open ACCDT files
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over 6 years ago
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(This post was pre-recorded. I'll follow up on any comments when I'm back). Since the Access 2007 template files are Open XML files, you can easily crack them open to take a peek. These are really ZIP files, so you can simply copy the ACCDT file...
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Templates: Quick overview of Open XML files (aka boring as hell post)
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over 6 years ago
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(This post was pre-recorded. I'll follow up on any comments when I'm back). This is really a brief overview of the terminology around Open XML files before we actually look at how it applies to Access 2007 template files. First of all, Open...
Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective
How to Determine if your Solution is in Disabled Mode
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over 6 years ago
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I was asked this question the other day and thought it's worth answering right away, and in public': "How can I programmatically determine that my solution is in disabled mode in Access 2007?" Well, this is very simple: by checking the value of the...
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Templates: Access 2007
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over 6 years ago
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Perhaps one of the most significant improvements to Access 2007 when it comes to ramping up to using Access are templates. Unlike previous version of Access (like Access 2003), where upon starting you would be greated by a blank window, in Access 2007...
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Customizing the Access Ribbon
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over 6 years ago
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As you probably saw in Erik's post , making a completly custom Ribbon is basically an XML exercise with some VBA or Macro glue code. In case you'd like to see this in action, the VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office System) team have a video...
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Access Developers-related Presentations
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over 6 years ago
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In case you'd like to get some free quasi-training videos, Microsoft is making available some of the videos for the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006. The full list of videos is here . Two of the videos are directly related to Access...
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Append Only (aka Column History)
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over 6 years ago
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In Access 2007, memo fields have now the capability of collecting change history. When you change an append-only field's data, the change and time stamp are recorded and appeneded to the version history of the field. To enable this feature, first you...
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