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Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP) has published a great video demo of an application that he build for tracking meetings rooms. He even has built a fancy calendar control that renders in the web using data macros and bound controls. it is a good example of the types of things you can do in the browser with Access + Access Services.
Here is my favorite quote from the video:
I find this new table level programming model encourages designs that allow you to quickly react to your changing business needs. You can likely change your application in less time than it takes to have a meeting with your web and database development team. In fact, with Access I don’t think you need that team anymore.
Nice work Albert!
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There also a copy of that Video on you-tube with closed captions courtesy of Access MVP Crystal if any of you are hearing impaired, or you simply need captioned text along with the video: You can find that here:
www.youtube.com/watch enjoy...
Impressive! P.S.
Off-topic: Before I left for summer holiday I filled up an invitation form for Office 2010 beta testing (Microsoft Connect). I think my status was "Pending" by that time. I had a five week holiday this year and when I came back the status has gone and I have no idea how to get MS Office 2010 beta. Any ideas, please?
We weren't able to accept everyone that wanted to join the tech preview. It seems like I tried to get you program but don't remember if you made it or not (the number of requests were overwhelming)... Any ways, the tech preview program is coming to a close. There will be a public beta this month that will let you download the client and server bits.
Hey Albert... is that your voice narrating this demo? It doesn't sound like you... Okay, well, we've never met in person, so I guess I should say... it doesn't sound like I imagine you sound like! :) Wow. That looks so fun!
Amazing I am so looking forward to getting my hands on 2010. I hated 2007 and have avoided it like the plague but THIS.... this with the Web stuff, looks like a must have version.
Good Job.
Fred:
Hey Albert... is that your voice narrating this demo? It doesn't sound like you Yes, It is my voice. However I agree with you and did not think I sound like that! So, it is my voice and I guess it is interesting to meet myself! The Yahoo link I posted above has closed captions and also does have a picture of me at the start and end of that video if you wondering what I look like (I look a lot like Bill Gates) Bruce: this with the Web stuff, looks like a must have version. Thanks for the kind words. I think the cool part here is that the web control, picture control, new nav control and the new table data macros (triggers) are ALL features that I will and can use in my long time VBA applications. In other words, a lot of those new features are 100% useful for desktop only VBA applications. The new web stuff is just the 1st step here. It is kind of like access 1.0 for the web. I think it is important for ALL products to have some type of web future and I thrilled to see access join the web party. I tested that application in Firefox and it runs perfect. I not tried it on a smart phone or a Mac yet, but this just gives some ideas of the new doors opening up here.
Albert FYI: I can tell you it runs perfectly on Mac Safari. :) (Though I didn't tested extensively but with what I had, it worked just as it would in other browsers.)
Banana, thanks, I just love the whole idea of Access web app running on Mac Safari. I'm waiting for someone to test thus on Linux. Hehehe
The browsers we support and test include IE 7, IE 8, Firefox latest, and Safari latest. It is cool seeing an access app in the browser. :-)
I will see if I get around to test it on a Linux VM I have, but I'd expect that Firefox on Linux to work equally well as ideally, the web engine should be OS-independent. Of course, there are exceptions (e.g. ActiveX controls or requests that binds into a native application such as File Transfer Manager) but for the HTML rendering itself, it shouldn't be affected by what OS it's running on (and would be a bad browser if it was...)
Hi Client, I have created a webDB in Access 2010, how can I open it to a browser like you mentioned? do I need sharepoint server in order to run this stuff? please post a tutorial or a steps on how to make our access webDB work in a browser. Thanks and more power! Gerald
Banana--I don't see why Linux would work. We just use standard HTML, JavaScript, and AJAX to render pages. There isn't ActiveX controls on the page. Gerald--you need to deploy SharePoint 2010 (we will have hosted versions ready next year). This month you will have the ability to download a beta of SharePoint and the updated client build.
Clint, Thanks for the confirmation; it's just as I expect and that's a tremendously great news, bringing Access to the other platforms, even if not as full-featured as the traditional client install.
Off-topic (?):
We also need controls to ease handling files on the Internet (download & upload), something like Internet Transfer Control (Inet) in VB6. Of course, we need more controls... and at least one control that would perform as a container, eg. PictureBox in VB6. ProgressBar would be nice as well... and a TreeView, UpDown, etc.
There are some problems with VB6 controls (ActiveX) in Access since they (in some ways) don't perform as expected.
Hi Clint, I was under the immpression that you could only publish Access 2010 Web applications using Sharepoint is that correct?
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