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The FMS Buzz Email Newsletter
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resources for Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, and Visual
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Some Subscriber Comments
I used your advice about looping through Recordsets on a project at
work. I simplified the project and exceeded expectations; many
thanks!
--Greg Dermer
Glad to get your newsletter today. I'd been trying to figure out a way
for Access to mate with Outlook, then Poof!!!, the answer was in your email,
Access tip...five easy steps
to retrieve info from an Outlook data file into an Access database.
--Paul Binet, Germany
Luke,
Thank you! Thank you! I have just finished reading your paper, which was
part of a link in the recent Buzz newsletter. I have printed it for others
to read, especially those skeptical on the
powers of Microsoft
Access and its capabilities.
Recently I had the opportunity to prove to my employer that a proper
redesign of an existing Access solution was the better choice to make. The
previous design was completed by what Access professional developers would
consider a rookie. Over 30 users were sharing the same MDB program which
also included the tables. Egad!
The business was screaming for help and the IT staff, not knowing any
better, claimed that if they pushed the data to SQL Server, the problems
would go away. Wrong!
I rewrote the application using unbound forms and split it into an MDE and
MDB, altering the Shift-Key-Bypass property in both to prevent unwarranted
access. The business loves it! The amount of data created annually didn't
justify moving it to SQL and I knew their connectivity issues would be
corrected once they used my application.
I have been writing applications in Access for over 7 years, learning and
growing each year.
I had the opportunity to attend the Advisor Developer's Conference in
Phoenix. After attending a session that spoke highly of
Total Access Analyzer and
the other FMS Access tools, I knew I had to purchase them. Thanks to your
company's products I have reduced my development time and technical
documentation time greatly.
Once again, thanks for your document and I look forward to reading more.
--D. Dowler,
Information Systems, Enterprise Rent-a-Car
I just wanted to thank you for providing a link to the FreeWheel utility that enables scrolling within the Visual Basic
window. What a joy it is to be able to move up and down
the screen freely. My partner thinks I'm completely
barking that such an insignificant thing could provide
such pleasure but I'm sure you guys know how frustrating
it is to keep moving the scrollbar manually.I always
read your tips section in the newsletter as I'm
self-taught and work from home mostly so I don't get the
benefit of working with other more experienced
colleagues and pinching all their good ideas! Thanks
again.
--Linda Lawson, United Kingdom
Hey, I love you guys. I didn't know about the Access decompile tip.
During development, my application database had ballooned to over 21
megabytes. I ran the
Microsoft Access decompile tip, compile and save modules, and
compacted, and it was reduced to just over 12 megs; what a huge
reduction!! I'm amazed. Thanks for this great tip. It was just what I
needed.
-- M. Baldwin
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