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2010 Intro Series

• The Access Show: Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat

  20 Jul 2010

  Dick Moffat is a professional Access developer who has been using Access 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 to build databases that run on Windows but live in SharePoint. We have a chat about how you can leverage your existing Access skills and bring your current databases into SharePoint to make sharing...
• Get to Access Services tables with OData

  20 Jul 2010

  OData is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. There are already several OData producers like: IBM WebSphere, Microsoft SQL Azure, SQL Server Reporting Services; and live services like: Netflix or...
• Northwind 2010 Web Database is now available

  19 Jul 2010

  We’re excited to announce that a longstanding Access tradition continues. A new version of the Northwind sample database has just been released. The best way to get to the template is to start up Access 2010, under Office.com Templates , click on Sample Templates , and then click on Northwind Web...
• Access 2010 New Features Demo

  9 Jun 2010

  Last week I had the opportunity to film a video for Channel 9 all about some of the new features of Access 2010. Hope you enjoy it.
• Access 2010 Intro on Office Backstage Site

  12 May 2010

  Abigail one of our amazing software engineer’s on the Access team was featured in an Intro to Access 2010 Video. Learn more about all the new Office 2010 applications at http://www.office2010themovie.com/
• Access 2010: Application Parts and Data Type Parts

  31 Mar 2010

  One of our goals with Access 2010 was to make it easier to reuse your database design work. In the Access 2007 Developer Extensions, we allow you to save a database as a template, making it available for others to use either as a starting point or a ready-to-use application. In Access 2010, you now can...
• Data Macro Aliases and the Where Condition Demystified

  11 Mar 2010

  Whenever I debug a data macro , one of the most common mistakes I find is misusing aliases, especially in the Where Condition of a ForEachRecord or LookupRecord data block.  This blog post is an attempt to demystify this area.  Hopefully, by the time you are done reading this you will have...
• Access 2010: data macros to create aggregates

  2 Mar 2010

  Access aggregate queries provide a popular and powerful way to keep track of totals and summarize all the data in a table. Data Macros introduce a new way to keep track of these types of totals traditionally done in aggregate queries or populated in reports. Using the calc and store model, you can store...
• Data Platform Improvements in SharePoint 2010

  15 Feb 2010

  Database Relationships, Unique Columns and validation rules make it easy to validate your data. This creates much more maintainable applications and helps users to do the right thing the first time. Some of the feedback we received from blog readers and developers for Access/SharePoint integration was...
• Access 2010 white paper about manageability and migration

  11 Feb 2010

  We recently published a white paper about Access 2010 and Access Services. Here are the download link, description, and table of contents. Improving the Reach and Manageability of Microsoft® Access 2010 Database Applications with Microsoft® Access Services Summary: Access Services is a new feature of...
• Access 2010: Shared images

  10 Feb 2010

  Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis--PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint, Web Services, and Shared Resources. Traditionally in Access, images have been bound to individual objects on a form or report. Then, if you wanted to change the image for a group of controls across multiple forms and reports...
• Access 2010 hands-on-lab is available on Channel 9

  8 Feb 2010

  For all those that want to experience development with Access 2010, a new Access 2010 unit has been added to the Channel 9 Learning Center for Office 2010 . The new Building Solutions with Access 2010 Lab consists of 5 exercises highlighting the new web database feature and touches on the new Macro Designer...
• Access 2010: Performance improvements against SharePoint lists

  5 Feb 2010

  Today’s guest writer is DJ Cole from the Access development team. DJ is the architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements. The Access Show Overview Our goal for Access 2010 was to make connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. We had to ensure...
• The Access Show: Publish a Access 2007 database to SharePoint with Access 2010

  12 Jan 2010

  The latest episode of The Access Show is a short tutorial by Ryan McMinn that shows you how to check web compatibility, publish to an Access Services enabled server (such as www.AccessHosting.com ), and create a simple web experience. Here is a help article that explains how to Build a database to share...
• Free Access Services hosting trial for early adopters

  4 Jan 2010

  We have received feedback from developers and blog readers that they want to try out Access Services but don’t have the resources to setup a full machine running SharePoint Beta. Part of our strategy for small to medium sized business has always been secure, reliable hosting in the cloud for Access apps...
• Access 2010 Web compatibility checker

  21 Dec 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Neha Monga—the PM owner for the web compatibility checker. The Web Compatibility checker is a tool that allows users to check web compatibility of the tables and web objects. It is a useful tool to help you migrate existing applications to the Web. Access Server doesn’t...
• The Access Show: Managing Access Databases with SharePoint

  2 Dec 2009

  This is the third episode of The Access Show . Steve Greenberg recently gave a great talk (rated in the top 7 of all sessions) at the SharePoint Developers Conference about how Access 2010 and Access Services enable organizations to provide better oversight of Access development while empowering users...
• Publish to SharePoint (part 2)

  1 Dec 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis—the PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint. In our last post about publish, we covered the basics of how to publish your Access database to a SharePoint server. In this post, we’ll look at how to troubleshoot publish issues and maintain your published database. Errors...
• Publish to SharePoint (part 1)

  23 Nov 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis—the PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint. A common question in the Access community is “how do I get my app on the web?” Here is the most recent example : My wife and I have just started our own Recruitment business and I started an Access...
• Access Services overview and install information

  19 Nov 2009

  Recently on The Access Show Ryan and I introduced Access Services and created a donations application that ran in the browser. I thought it would be helpful to provide some background to the vision and direction. Years ago I came across a post on UtterAccess that articulately described what we hope to...