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April 2006 - Posts

Changes to the Command Buttons and the Button Wizard

If you open a form in design mode and try to create a button using the button wizard you will notice something different. Actually, you might not even notice it at first. The UI is pretty much the same as usual, except for a couple of arcane type of commands Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:46 PM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Error Handling and Macros: MacroError

I previously discussed the brand new OnError macro action that introduces some useful error-handling capabilities to macros. I ended up with the break-or-make question that I'm sure was on the heads of the error-handling-scarred people in the audience: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Access 2007 demo video online

It looks like Clint gave a demo on Access 2007 and it's live right here , on MSDN TV. The colors in the demo seem a little off, so don't think the product actually looks like that :) It's definetely paying close attention to the new filtering menus that Read More...
Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 3:00 PM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments

Error Handling and Macros: OnError

(This post is pre-recorded. I'll follow up on any comments when I'm back). Perhaps one of the weak spots of macros was error handling. The only error-related facility available was SingleStep (which, by the way, we now added an action so you can reliably Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Embedded Macros

As I mentioned on this post , macros are the way to go when running in disabled mode or when you want to do basic things without having to write any piece of code. In Access 2007, we are adding a new twist to macros. We now allow macros to be saved with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Screenshots: Access 2007 (and other Office apps) running on Vista

I bumped into this on the web and thought it would be interesting to share. This website has some screenshots of Office 2007 Beta1 Technical Refresh (no, it's not Beta2 but it's definetely cleaner than Beta1) running on Vista. Here's the overall picture Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

TempVars: a new Access programmability facility for VBA and Macros

(This post was pre-recorded. I'll follow up on any comments when I'm back). I thought it would be interesting to talk on this post about a minor, but interesting, piece of functionality that we are adding to Access 2007 - TempVars (for Temporary Variables). Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 13 Comments

Macros and Disabled Mode

As Erik described here , as part of the security-minded changes we're doing this time around, we streamlined (and in some cases just plain rationalized) what happens when you open an un-signed and un-trusted database. You will now see a Trust Center warning Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments

Access 2007 marketing material is out

Apparently part of the marketing material for Access 2007 is out. IMO, it is a little sparse on details, so I recommend keeping tuned to this blog and Erik's to see the latest and greatest news and features. To save you time, I recommend looking at the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

The New Record Navigator

One of things you might notice that we have changed this time around is the Record Navigator. We have some fond feeling for the Record Navigator as it was shipped in Office 2003 and previously (below), but quite frankly the look was more than outdated. Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Access and Colors: MDBs, ACCDBs and the new Access Theme Colors

On my previous post, I spoke about how the new Access Theme Colors are very cool and all, but there's still the question as to how this relates to building solutions for 2003, XP, etc. First, let me start by revealing a small bit of information I didn't Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments
 
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