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Installation, Setup and Access User Interface
Remote Updates of a Back-End Database
Using the Access 2003 Database Window
Extracting Your Access Configuration
Click Savers
Packaging Access 2003 Solutions
SQL Server etc
Client-Server Utilities
Access Answers: Client/Server Issues
Client/Server Development with Access
Migrating Access (and Outlook Data) to SQL Server
Improving on VBA with Transact-SQL
One Huge Leap Toward SQL Server
!An Access Explorer for SQL Server Tables
Using Access to Prototype for SQL Server
Working with or without a DSN
Preparing To Upgrade Access Tables to SQL Server 2005/2008
Using Triggers
Exercising Options
Access Data Projects
Access 2002 Data Projects for Developers
Using Stored Procedures in ADPs
Moving ADP's Between Machines
Starting the Interface with Access Data Projects
Creating SQL Server Tables with Access Projects
Starting the Interface with Access Data Projects
Starting the Interface with Access Data Projects (part 2)
Making Changes in Access Data Projects
Protection and Security
Microsoft Access Passwords, Workgroups and ADO
Real-World Access Security
Dual Control
Encrypt Your Data
Restricting Who Can Use Your Database
Manually Changing Startup Options
Pivots and Charts
Create Dynamic Chart Applications
PivotTables in Access
Programming Pivot Tables for Access Forms
Analyze Your Data in Space
Creating Histograms Using Access
Graph to GIFs and Powerpoint
Easy as Pie
Managing Quality, Bugs and Errors
Playing Tag with Validation
Access Answers: But it Worked Yesterday!
Logging Access Startup Details and Version Control
Soundex: "Close" Only Counts in Horseshoes
Handling Misleading Report Errors
Making History
Error Trapping with a Code Builder
No More Write-only Code
List Boxes, Access Bugs, and More
Imports, Exports and XML
Exporting and Recovering Programming Objects
Access 2003 and XML
Put XML to Use in Access 2000+
Taking Outlook and XML to Task
Access to XML
Using FTP from Access Applications
Save Yourself Some Work
Data export made easy
Web Services for the Access Developer
Matching Data for Analysis
User Interface and Documentation
Access User Interface Design
Six Rules for Effective User Interface Design
Handling Visual Complexity
Navigation Through Recursion
The Form’s the Thing
Access Application Development Documentation
Everything Doesn't Happen at Once: Loosely Coupled Events
Implementing Proactive User Assistance
Getting More Out of Access 2003 Help
Improving Data Entry Feedback with Sound
Cuing Banners
Access Answers: Talk to Me
Access Interfaces: Handling Price Ranges
Single Sourcing Your Help
Reviews
FMS Total Visual Code Tools 2002
FMS Access Speller 2000+
FMS Total Access Analyzer 2000
Product Review: Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit
Access 2002/XP for Developers
Book Review: Grover Park George on Access
The Access Developer's Bookshelf
Access Answers about a variety of issues
Forms, Sorting Reports, and Dating Errors
Want Machine Information?
MP3 - Sounds Good to Me
Access Replication
SQL Discrepancies, List Boxes, and Dating
Say UNC, API Calls, {CAPSLOCK}, and Time
Bar Code Basics
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
How to Convert Case and Calculate Total Time
Peter Comes to Bat
An Average Column: I Mean, What Mode is Your Median
Top Values, Hierarchical Lists, Equivalent Strings
Loosely Coupled Events COM+
Managing Cursors, Quotes, Subforms, and Missing Data
Windows Controls and Message Boxes
Making Your Applications Talk
I've Just Got to Get a Message to You
Treeview: Building Explorer-style Forms
Taming the Treeview Control
Displaying Hierarchical Data in a TreeView
File Open Dialog Options
Giving Your Access Form Controls Web-style Behaviors
ActiveX Controls and Forms
An Assortment of Windows API Tricks
Dates and Time
About Time
When DateAdd Doesn't
Date Tricks
Fuzzy Dates
Working All Day
Did Someone Say Holiday
Access Developer Needs a Date
Dates, Data Access, and Presentation
VBA
The Easy Approach to Code Reuse
Objects for the Database Developer
Using Dynamic External Event Procedures
Preventing Reference Failures
Two Functions You Don't Use Enough
Embedded quotes in SQL statements
“Just-In-Time” Queries
Handling Print Layout
More Dragging Around
Dealing with File Names
The FileSystemObject
Accessing Spatial Data, Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Peter Comes to Bat - Handling Quotes, Weekdays
Keeping up Appearances
Hide Your Input, and it’s Pretty Common
User Preferences, Toggles, and Rocket Science
Choosing Directories: Harder Than It Sounds
System Tables, Mixing Versions
More Favorites
Track Your System File Versions
Access Answers: Shortcuts, Quotes, and What Have I Done?
Microsoft Access Forms—All Class
Shrink-Wrapped or Do-it-yourself Queries
Shuffling Lists of Numbers, Ranking, and Control-Level Validation
Cool Tricks for the Sophisticated Developer
Advanced Data Shaping
ADO
Preview - Active Data Objects
An ADO Tutorial: What is ADO?
An ADO Command Factory for Stored Procedures
Using the ADO Command Object
Using the ADO Objects Effectively
Advanced ADO Data Providers
Comparing DAO and ADO Recordsets
Persistent Recordsets in ADO
Accessing ADO
Advanced Data Shaping
ADO and Subform Performance
.Net and SharePoint and Tricky Stuff
Visual Basic .NET Development
Access 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services
Access: The .NET Report Writer
Managing Access from .Net
Building an Access Add-In with Dot Net
Select * From SharePoint Where db = ‘Access’
ADO.Net Revolution: Data Adapter
Service-Oriented Access
Web Service Wannabes_2
Accessing the Internet
Service-Oriented Access
Fix Your
Corrupt Access Database Page