I'll be away for a couple of weeks, so won't be able to post or respond to comments (although Clint will likely be on the comments). I'll start up with SharePoint when I get back. Thanks, Erik

Way back in October, I posted an overview of Access. We've finally got a complete customer-ready overview for the product that will be going up on the Access site at http://www.microsoft.com/access . If you'd like a printable version of this paper, it is available here . This takes longer than you might imagine, so I thought I'd post it here as well. Even though I understand many of you are looking for more technical details, this blog is fairly widely read and I know there are many who would like...

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...

In the last post , we talked about sending out data collection emails. In this post, we'll talk about what happens to those mails when they come back and how the data gets moved from Outlook back in to the Access database. Responding to the Mail The data collection email can either be a very simple HTML form (with no controls, so it isn't blocked by any firewalls or gateways) or can be a rich InfoPath form. In either case, the person getting the emailed form simply replies to the email message to...