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Silverlight resources post by ScottGu

Scott Guthrie has a truly great post on Silverlight . You should be able to find anything you need to start ramping up--very cool, innovative technology! As a developer, it is definitely worth your time to get educated on the possiblities. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 10:15 PM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments

Security Considerations and Guidance for Access 2007 - MSDN article

There is a new article by Access MVP Garry Robinson. "Find out how you can use Access 2007 to protect the information in your databases. Learn about encrypting files, administering passwords, converting databases to the new ACCDB and ACCDE formats, and Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 7:06 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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The runtime will ship May 15th

I just heard from Erik that the runtime will ship as a free download on May 15th! I will post a URL to the download page when it is available. Enjoy! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:16 AM by Clint Covington | 6 Comments
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Tip on renamed field names and debugging reports

Today's Guest Writer: Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP I have a complex report with 5 grouping levels, subtotals, and three subreports for additional details of totals. There are also lots of calculated fields on the report with embedded control names. Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 9:08 AM by Clint Covington | 6 Comments
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Reader question about macros and VBA

A reader recently asked: Is there any way on Access 2007 to keep wizards and Switchboard Manager coding in VBA, any way developers "HAVE" to code for most applications. If a customer is buying an apllication from us, he is not going to trust what he bought?. Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:26 AM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments

How to pull in Amazon web service data into Access 2007

Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis. Several weeks ago he started a general discussion about web services which turned out to be a popular post. This week he is providing the details of the books sample database. It would be sweet if someone takes this Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 11:01 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments

Cool As Ice uses Office Live and Access 2007 with custom ribbon

Alan Cossey recently sent me a overview of how Cool As Ice is using Office Live and Access to track process information. He has found a couple bugs we will fix in SP 1 but overall it is working nicely for them. I thought some of you might appreciate seeing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:32 PM by Clint Covington | 19 Comments

VBA Functions and RunCommand code samples sites

I recently came across in an internal newsgroup a couple great sites that provide lots of code samples for expressions and runcommands. You might find this useful. Terry Wickenden's web site has lots of examples of RunCommands: http://www.accessruncommand.com Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 3:14 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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Tips and tricks for designing forms and reports - part 3

This is the final post of a three part series on Access Tips and Tricks provided by members of the Access team. This article focuses on non-obvious things new to the forms and report designers. The other articles in this series covered useful keyboard Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 3:39 AM by Clint Covington | 5 Comments

My favorite Access keyboard commands - part 2

I have a confession to make… I started hacking around in computers with Windows 3.1—never learned how to really use the command line. I know—I have fallen from grace for many of you developers. The mouse has been my friend. I’m trying to change and use Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:28 PM by Clint Covington | 6 Comments

Web service and sample book database that uses Amazon's Web Services

Today’s guest writer is Access Program Manager Ric Lewis. Ric spent the last couple years with the Indigo team and just took an Access PM job. He is looking for some customer feedback on interesting web services scenarios. To start the conversation—he Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:33 AM by Clint Covington | 22 Comments
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Tips and tricks from the Access team - part 1

I have been working on a three part series of non-obvious tips and tricks for using Access 2007. The other series will be on designing forms and reports and my favorite keyboard shortcuts. I put together a rough draft of this series and sent it around Read More...
Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 8:44 PM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments

Macro improvements in Access 2007

Access 2007 and Macros One feature that might be surprising to many experienced developers is the re-invigoration of macros in Access 2007. We have done a bunch of work in this area that we think benefits end users and developers in some scenarios. If Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:01 AM by Clint Covington | 10 Comments
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The runtime and developer extensions will be FREE!

This morning we are announcing that the developer extensions and runtime will be available for FREE ! In the past, Access developers had to purchase the Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office System in order to build and deploy runtime solutions. The Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:35 AM by Clint Covington | 16 Comments
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New SQL editing and versioning tool for Access

I just got an email from Andrew Wrigley, an member of the UK Access users group, about a new tool he has developed for editing SQL. You all might find this interesting--Access SQL editing tools are so lame. I haven't used it but the screen shots look Read More...
Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 10:43 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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