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Templates: Quick Overview of SaveAsText and LoadFromText (aka let’s get boring again)

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. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments

Happy Birthday

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 me know how do Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:29 PM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments
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Templates: The Meat of the ACCDT Template Files

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, with very Read More...
Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Templates: Cracking open ACCDT files

(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 somewhere Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Templates: Quick overview of Open XML files (aka boring as hell post)

(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 XML files Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

How to Determine if your Solution is in Disabled Mode

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 IsTrusted Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments

Templates: Access 2007

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 10 Comments

Customizing the Access Ribbon

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Access Developers-related Presentations

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Append Only (aka Column History)

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 3 Comments
 
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