Today’s guest writer is Neha Monga, Program Manager on the Access team. She works on compatibility checker, the runtime, Access developer extensions, and the future of the Access user experience. I’m starting to think about ways to improve the Access user experience to make YOU faster, more efficient and smoothly connect to what comes before and after. I would love to get feedback from you on the following areas: What tasks do  you do often, and you wish Access were faster or more efficient...

Today’s guest writer is Neha Monga, the Access PM responsible for the runtime. she was recently asked a few questions that are likely worth sharing more broadly. Question: Is it in the design of Access 2007 runtime to be able to run in the SAME PC as one where there is already another Access License installed?   [Neha] Yes. Access 2007 runtime should be able to run with concurrent installations of other versions of full blown Access. Question: Can the RunTime2007 application xxxx.accdr run on...

Today’s guest writer is Greg Lindhorst, the person looking into how to improve Access and SQL Server for Access 15. Hello everyone! As Office 2010 nears shipping, we are starting to plan Office 15. One area that we are considering improving is our SQL Server support. Based on what I've heard from the community, that would be most welcome. Note that we are very early in planning, and considering many possible areas of investment, I unfortunately can't commit to any actual improvements at this...

In the last post, I described how you can publish an Access database to SharePoint. This time, we'll look at taking that database back offline, making data changes while disconnected, and re-synching. I'll also briefly discuss updating the thin client version of the application using SharePoint Designer. Opening the Application from SharePoint When the database is published to SharePoint, it moves the data into WSS lists and the database front-end into a document library as described in the last...

The Access team is proud to introduce the Access 2013 public preview, which will make it easier than ever for everyday people to organize the data in their lives and businesses using Access apps. This release focuses on bringing Access databases to the web through Office 365. We've made lots of improvements to help you build professional apps more quickly than ever. In addition, your data is now stored in a full-fledged SQL Server database for speed, reliability, and extensibility.

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Greg Lindhorst (Program Manager on the team) is looking for customer feedback on the impact of some new features on cross version scenarios. Love to get some feedback from the community about a few questions we have: How important is it that previous versions of Access can RUN applications (launch forms, change data values) written in a newer version of Access? How important is it that previous versions of Access can EDIT applications (modify forms, change data schema) written in a newer version...

The Access team wants to learn more about who reads our blog, perceptions of Access in your organization, and what new features people would find valuable. We would appreciate it if you help us out by taking this short 12 question survey . Thanks

I described the new Access UI in this post and this post way back in March. Now I'll run through how you program the ribbon UI using VBA. In a future post (we're still working out the content) I'll do another post on how to do the same thing using macros (so the app will run in disabled mode). Customized Ribbons The ribbon UI presents a ton of new flexibility for us creating Access and for you building apps on top of Access that wasn't there before. As described in the posts on the ribbons, there...

Highlights The ability to export reports to Excel has been added. Fixes for issues with the import data wizards, report printing and previewing, macros, Excel integration, and date filters. Updates to Access Developer Extensions and Access Runtime are updated for SP2 and are available in all supported languages. The ADE is patched with the full Office Suite patch, while the Access Runtime is in a separate patch. More Access Runtime info This version of the Access 2007 Runtime contains the same version...

John Durant from the Office Developer marketing team is blogging about why VBA still makes sense . I expect the Access community is interested in what he has to say. Here is a little taste of the article: Not infrequently I am asked, “So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it supported? Should I migrate away from VBA now? Can I count on this technology?” (Here I go with a response!) These are fair questions, because customers need to know that the software systems they...