frice's WebLog
SP1 Fix Affecting 64 bit Solutions in Access
We are on-track to deliver SP1 in mid-summer 2011 (here is the official announcement). We definitely...
Date: 05/23/2011
Add-in that lists the IDs (idMSOs) of context menu controls is now available
As part of Office 2010 extensibility, it is now possible to extend Context Menus exists, e.g. adding...
Date: 09/01/2010
What's New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live
Learn about some of the new features and technologies for developers in Office 2010. View the paper...
Date: 08/27/2010
Introducing a new type of help for developers
The Microsoft Developer Center introduces a new type of help documentation for developers. They are...
Date: 04/02/2010
Check out the new article from Excel MVP Ron de Bruin
The article titled Using VBA in Excel to Send Workbooks and Ranges through E-Mail with Outlook (Part...
Date: 03/11/2010
New Office Talk column on using Office Open XML is now available
I've written a new Office Talk column on creating form letters in Word 2007 and Word 2010 by using...
Date: 01/07/2010
Lots of new resources for the Office 2010 Backstage View UI and 64-bit Office
Be sure and take a look at the following articles and downloads for both the Office 2010 Backstage...
Date: 11/20/2009
The Office Developer Resources Ribbon UI Add-in
The Microsoft Office Developer Center (ODC) (https://msdn.microsoft.com/office) contains a tremendous...
Date: 07/16/2009
Excel's Worksheets and Sheets Collection - What's the Difference?
Among the top four objects most searched for on the Microsoft Developer Network by Excel programmers...
Date: 12/05/2007
Check out these new articles on MSDN
The article Calling Excel 2007 Custom Wizards from the Office Fluent Ribbon by Using VBA...
Date: 11/08/2007
Cool translation feature in Microsoft Office
One of the coolest features in Office that I think many people (well, at least me) overlook is the...
Date: 04/10/2007
Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005 is Incredible
Visual Studio 2005 code snippets are a neat way to package pieces of code that you want to keep...
Date: 04/03/2007
New Visual How-to content on the Microsoft Office Developer Center
Just a quick note to say that there is new developer content on the Office Developer Center...
Date: 03/23/2007
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 6
In this topic on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at different scenarios for customizing the...
Date: 06/28/2006
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 5
In the previous blog, I created a COM add-in in managed C# code that customized the Ribbon UI...
Date: 06/21/2006
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 4
In this installment in the series on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at adding...
Date: 06/14/2006
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 3
In this blog, I will walk through an example of adding a custom tab, custom group, and a button with...
Date: 06/07/2006
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 2
In the previous blog, I discussed reasons for the new Office Ribbon UI, ways to customize the...
Date: 05/31/2006
Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 1
This is the first in a series of topics focusing on the new Office 2007 user interface (UI) and...
Date: 05/24/2006
Let Access do the work of writing SQL statements for you
One of the views associated with creating queries in the Query designer in Access is the SQL window....
Date: 01/27/2006
XBox - Life, What Life?
Just as Michael Corleone said in Godfather III, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back...
Date: 01/25/2006
It's deja-vu all over again - recursion
One of the subjects that made me nervous when taking computer science classes in college was...
Date: 01/25/2006
What happened to my button?
I recently had a customer ask how he could freeze objects, in this case a set of buttons, so that...
Date: 11/14/2005
Get "Immediate" results when creating or debugging code
In my last blog, I talked about debugging with the Watch window where you can do things such as look...
Date: 10/31/2005
VBA Beginner's Corner - Someone to Watch over you.
The Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) integrated development environment (IDE) seen in the...
Date: 10/27/2005
Using Northwind Traders can save yourself a lot of time
Since 1994, regardless of my actual job, I've always found a way to stay involved with Access. I'm...
Date: 10/17/2005
Writing Technical Articles - Part 3
To recap, you've created a plan and an outline for your article. You've also added code samples or...
Date: 09/28/2005
Writing Technical Articles Part 2
Continuing my previous blog on writing technical articles, now that you have a plan, it's time to...
Date: 09/28/2005
Writing Technical Articles Part 1 - Step up to the plate and share the wealth
I'm a programmer writer for the MSDN Office Developer Center. My job for the last five years is...
Date: 09/20/2005
Using ADO with Excel Data Sources
ADO is used for performing client/server data access between a data consumer and a data provider....
Date: 07/09/2004
Tips on Access report numbering
Starting Report page numbers from a number other than one In Design View place an unbound text box...
Date: 06/25/2004
User-Defined Functions in Excel
Excel allows you to create custom functions, called "User Defined Functions" (UDF's) that can be...
Date: 06/11/2004
Creating reusable code
This blog discusses just a couple of ways that you can make your code reusable.If you frequently...
Date: 06/11/2004
Adding Additional Conditional Formatting in Access with VBA
Microsoft Access 2000 (and later) lets you conditionally format the data in combo box and text box...
Date: 06/08/2004
Database normalization simplified?
--Making Sense of Database Normalization, Hopefully-- Following is my take on database...
Date: 03/10/2004
Adding a button and Click event at run-time
Many developers recognize the need to disable certain controls in their application to either keep...
Date: 02/24/2004
Should I use a bang or dot?
One of the questions frequently asked by new Access users (and veterans as well) in the newsgroups...
Date: 02/18/2004
Improving Access Database Performance
One of the areas where I see a lot of questions in the newsgroups concerns the performance of Access...
Date: 02/12/2004