frice's WebLog
We are on-track to deliver SP1 in mid-summer 2011 (here is the official announcement). We definitely...
Date: 05/23/2011
As part of Office 2010 extensibility, it is now possible to extend Context Menus exists, e.g. adding...
Date: 09/01/2010
Learn about some of the new features and technologies for developers in Office 2010. View the paper...
Date: 08/27/2010
The Microsoft Developer Center introduces a new type of help documentation for developers. They are...
Date: 04/02/2010
The article titled Using VBA in Excel to Send Workbooks and Ranges through E-Mail with Outlook (Part...
Date: 03/11/2010
I've written a new Office Talk column on creating form letters in Word 2007 and Word 2010 by using...
Date: 01/07/2010
Be sure and take a look at the following articles and downloads for both the Office 2010 Backstage...
Date: 11/20/2009
The Microsoft Office Developer Center (ODC) (https://msdn.microsoft.com/office) contains a tremendous...
Date: 07/16/2009
Among the top four objects most searched for on the Microsoft Developer Network by Excel programmers...
Date: 12/05/2007
The article Calling Excel 2007 Custom Wizards from the Office Fluent Ribbon by Using VBA...
Date: 11/08/2007
One of the coolest features in Office that I think many people (well, at least me) overlook is the...
Date: 04/10/2007
Visual Studio 2005 code snippets are a neat way to package pieces of code that you want to keep...
Date: 04/03/2007
Just a quick note to say that there is new developer content on the Office Developer Center...
Date: 03/23/2007
In this topic on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at different scenarios for customizing the...
Date: 06/28/2006
In the previous blog, I created a COM add-in in managed C# code that customized the Ribbon UI...
Date: 06/21/2006
In this installment in the series on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at adding...
Date: 06/14/2006
In this blog, I will walk through an example of adding a custom tab, custom group, and a button with...
Date: 06/07/2006
In the previous blog, I discussed reasons for the new Office Ribbon UI, ways to customize the...
Date: 05/31/2006
This is the first in a series of topics focusing on the new Office 2007 user interface (UI) and...
Date: 05/24/2006
One of the views associated with creating queries in the Query designer in Access is the SQL window....
Date: 01/27/2006
Just as Michael Corleone said in Godfather III, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back...
Date: 01/25/2006
One of the subjects that made me nervous when taking computer science classes in college was...
Date: 01/25/2006
I recently had a customer ask how he could freeze objects, in this case a set of buttons, so that...
Date: 11/14/2005
In my last blog, I talked about debugging with the Watch window where you can do things such as look...
Date: 10/31/2005
The Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) integrated development environment (IDE) seen in the...
Date: 10/27/2005
Since 1994, regardless of my actual job, I've always found a way to stay involved with Access. I'm...
Date: 10/17/2005
To recap, you've created a plan and an outline for your article. You've also added code samples or...
Date: 09/28/2005
Continuing my previous blog on writing technical articles, now that you have a plan, it's time to...
Date: 09/28/2005
I'm a programmer writer for the MSDN Office Developer Center. My job for the last five years is...
Date: 09/20/2005
ADO is used for performing client/server data access between a data consumer and a data provider....
Date: 07/09/2004
Starting Report page numbers from a number other than one In Design View place an unbound text box...
Date: 06/25/2004
Excel allows you to create custom functions, called "User Defined Functions" (UDF's) that can be...
Date: 06/11/2004
This blog discusses just a couple of ways that you can make your code reusable.If you frequently...
Date: 06/11/2004
Microsoft Access 2000 (and later) lets you conditionally format the data in combo box and text box...
Date: 06/08/2004
--Making Sense of Database Normalization, Hopefully-- Following is my take on database...
Date: 03/10/2004
Many developers recognize the need to disable certain controls in their application to either keep...
Date: 02/24/2004
One of the questions frequently asked by new Access users (and veterans as well) in the newsgroups...
Date: 02/18/2004
One of the areas where I see a lot of questions in the newsgroups concerns the performance of Access...
Date: 02/12/2004