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Is Your Database Corrupt ?
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Unlimited News - Edition 85
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In This Issue
·
VBA Lives on and on
· Closing Down
Databases With The Workbench
· How we use
Basecamp from 37Signals to run our software business
· Bill Gates
Last Day at Microsoft
· Shift Key
Just in case you were wondering, Microsoft
have categorically denied that VBA is on the way out in Office Access 2009.
Note: You can find this sort of news in our Max Out newsletter delivered
once a week at http://vb123.com/news
Closing Down Databases With The Workbench
Here is one of the
questions and answers from the Workbench FAQ page.
We purchased the
Workbench at the request of one of
our developers.
He thought he had the ability to close open databases, or kick the users off
of it, but I don't see that ability. Am I missing something here?
It is in the Workbench, you need to add a bit of code and a form to each
database.
Read More Here
You may have the Admin button turned off, it can be turned on in the Options
form by pressing the options button. See figure 2 on this page.
Read more here
How we use Basecamp from 37Signals to run our software business
A year ago I decided that it was time to crank the business up a bit and start using more contractors. When the work starting rolling in thanks to my more pro active marketing, so did the emails and files and the time sheets came in different forms. Quickly I felt like I was losing touch with my clients and projects and the Inbox took far too long to organize. Here is the story about how we used BaseCamp to help out...
Bill Gates Last Day at Microsoft
Funny video taking the Cheese out of Bill Gates. Takes a while to download.
Hi Garry
Any tips on preventing a user from getting to the database window by holding
down the SHIFT key when opening a database?
Robert
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Allow Bypass Key
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa200349.aspx
Easy to do in my workbench
http://www.vb123.com/workbench/help/version.htm#Startup
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Many thanks for such a prompt and helpful response.
Robert
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