Clint Covington: Software design, Microsoft Office Access
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News, trends, and commentary about everything from software design (i.e. innovation, nailing scenarios, elegance), and my personal technology passion -- Microsoft Office Access.
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- 123 from 6 Oct 2005 to 8 Nov 2008
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2008 4
2007 81
- Microsoft employees donate $72M in 2007
- UK Access User Group National Seminar
- Fall Advisor Summit on Access and SharePoint in Miami
- The runtime is available for download
- Showing summary data with crosstab queries
- Five Visual How To demos
- Excel as a database
- Access Runtime is on Hold
- SharePoint Web 2.0 Toolkit
- The runtime download is available for FREE!
- Runtime update
- Access Best Practices Guidelines
- Do you like the new navigation pane?
- 10 ways to get better gas mileage
- Skinning SharePoint resources
- Good writing tips for developers forced to write marketing content
- The spiral of complexity and feature creep - New Yorker article
- Silverlight resources post by ScottGu
- Design inspiration resources
- Hot fixes for three Access 2007 issues
- Hold the runtime download page
- Resume best practices revealed
- Security Considerations and Guidance for Access 2007 - MSDN article
- The runtime will ship May 15th
- Microsoft shows new database technology at MIX - Information Week article
- Tell me about your ribbon app - get a FREE copy of Access 2007 Inside Out
- Office 2003 SP3 article on CNET
- Tip on renamed field names and debugging reports
- Help topic for beginning users to understand the basics of an Access database
- SharePoint Takes Lead in Collaboration Market - WSJ article
- When customer support goes wrong
- Domain functions usage
- Reader question about macros and VBA
- Tell me about your Inventory application
- Revenue opportunities on Microsoft Office Live with Access 2007
- Millions of Access template downloads, 5 new free databases
- Access 2007 conference and Disneyland - what a combination!
- Two Access 2007 chapters from MS Learning books
- Show your best work as a best practice in a Microsoft Case study
- How to improve the visuals of Access applications
- Link to Access 2007 KB articles and solution center
- How to pull in Amazon web service data into Access 2007
- Where is it? Navigating Office ribbon commands
- Adds/cuts uncovered: The making of a new release
- Submit your own community template!
- Cool As Ice uses Office Live and Access 2007 with custom ribbon
- New RunCommands in Microsoft Office Access 2007
- VBA Functions and RunCommand code samples sites
- New blog feed from the Access UA team
- Tips and tricks for designing forms and reports - part 3
- My favorite Access keyboard commands - part 2
- Web service and sample book database that uses Amazon's Web Services
- Tips and tricks from the Access team - part 1
- Open and respectful cultures create better designs
- New Access 2007 books
- Macro improvements in Access 2007
- Seattle PI article "Microsoft Office 2007 sales twice that of previous version"
- Two new developer focused articles on Excel Services
- The Craft of Design and Jonathan Ive
- How to deploy trusted locations with group policy
- Four new user assistance topics on authoring reports
- Good Experience blog post "Innovation and customer experience basics"
- InfoWorld article - "Microsoft: Office training fears overblown"
- Links to resources about Excel Services
- Eight new query help topics available
- The runtime and developer extensions will be FREE!
- MSDN article "Architecture Strategies for Catching the Long Tail"
- Web Directions North Conference, Feb 6 - 10 in Vancouver
- Principles of MicroFormats and simplicity
- The Excel and Access Services team is growing - we have job openings
- MVP's Allen Browne's review and resource page on Access 2007
- The New York Times "Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software"
- UA articles on SharePoint integration
- Access 2007 Runtime information
- You Tube video blog on data collection
- How do you use Access?
- I'm thinking about a Samsung BlackJack
- The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year - Office 2007 Tops PC Worlds List!
- Wall Street Journal's (Walt Mossberg) take on the ribbon
- I have a new job
- History of Microsoft vocabulary tag cloud
2006 33
- Interactive chart/form filtering code sample
- Softer datasheet visuals in 3 simple steps
- Free 60 day trial download of Office 2007
- New site on Access ribbons with VBA and XML samples
- Feedback from a customer about Access 2007
- My favorite software book of the year "Get Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application"
- MSDN article "Transitioning Your Existing Access Applications to Access 2007"
- Design for filter favorites functionality in forms
- MSDN article "Ribbon Extensibility in Access 2007"
- MSDN article "Optimizing Microsoft Office Access Applications Linked to SQL Server"
- Thoughts on Zune
- PC World review of Access 2007
- Up to my neck in sand
- Ideas about creating great looking reports
- Visual design of Web 2.0 sites and Access applications
- Find Your Data article by Access MVP, Doug Steele
- Outstanding review about Office Live on CNBC
- InfoPath team blog on Data Collection
- SharePoint Server Review in CRN
- Office Live launches today
- PC Mag's Editors Choice - 4.5 out of 5 Stars!
- Office Live and my wife's resume service home business
- Access 2007 Released to Manufacturing
- Expense Reports database template
- New Access 2007 main page was just launched
- White paper on "Creating Managed Add-ins for Access 2007"
- My blogging frequency
- Access 2007 on MSDN TV
- Maps and driving directions inside Access forms
- The marketing wheels start turning
- Software that models business process
- Death of an old friend -- Data Access Pages
- ActiveWin Beta 1 Access review with more screen shots