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Access 2007's Improved Command Buttons

Up until this point, Access has supported command buttons with text or a picture, but never both at the same time. This has been a long standing request from users: the capability of showing both the caption and the picture. In Access 2007, you will notice Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

The New Import/Export Specifications UI

As I previously mentioned, we are now exposing Import/Export Specifications (Imex Specs) in the OM in a thorough manner. We also took the time to make importing and exporting less repetitive in the UI. In the past, to make use of Imex Specs, you had to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Customizing the Office Button Menu (aka File Menu) and No-Ribbon Custom Solutions

Even though most of the information on how to customize the Ribbon in Access 2007 is already out , there are two recurring question that I've been seeing being asked often: How can I customize the Office Button Menu (aka File Menu)? We allow you to show/hide Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

The New Import/Export Specification OM

In previous versions of Access (such as Access 2003), you can save the steps from an import or export operation into what we call Import/Export Specifications (Imex Specs). After saving it, you can always load it back so you don't have to customize the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 6 Comments

The New Access 2007 Switchboards

Now that Access 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) is out, you will notice that we changed the Switchboard Manager functionality. Now that we have Disabled Mode and Embedded Macros , it was about time we revisited the switchboards that the Switchboard Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Quick Trick: Copying Embedded Macros from one Property to another

Now that we spent all this time talking about templates, how about we put to use something we learned about it in a totally unexpected way? Remember that we talked about how embedded macros are really represented as SaveAsText/LoadFromText alongside objects? Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments

Templates: How to create your own

Now that we discussed extensively all about templates, we can talk about how this all this can be put at your service. You see, we will give you the capability (though not in the Access product itself - details will be forthcoming soon, hopefully) to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:00 PM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments

Templates: Programmability

Now that we talked about what Access 2007 templates are made of and how Access makes use of them to create brand new databases, it begs the question as to what you can programmability-wise. The answer to that question lies in the fact that we changed Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Templates: SharePoint comes into Play

When you go create your new database from a template using Access 2007, you will notice a checkbox right by the OK button and path where you will create the file. By checking the “Create and Link your Database to a Windows SharePoint Services Site”, instead Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

Templates: The Template Store

No, that is not a new franchise opening near you. So far we talked a lot about what templates are, how we use them and all, but where are they? Well, they are actually in different locations in your hard drive. Do you think we would make this easier on Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Templates: The Instantiation Process

As we’ve seen in the previous posts, Access 2007 templates are not really database files per se, but simply a set of data and meta-data that will allow Access to create a brand new database file every time. At a high level, the process to instantiate Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Templates: Where did the embedded macros go?

Now that we saw how macros, queries, forms, reports and tables are persisted in templates, we can ask: what about embedded macros? Since embedded macros live in the event properties of form, reports and controls, they are persisted along with the object Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Templates: Access Objects parts

Last week I talked about how the template core data is laid out. Now, I’ll focus on the actual Access objects. For every Access object part (each file in template\database\objects), there is a corresponding” XML file in the \template\database\objects\properties Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

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

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)
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