Introducing Ben Clothier
The IT Impact family is growing with the addition of Access MVP Ben Clothier as a Senior Access Developer. Ben has been developing for many years with Access and has an impressive list of accomplishments: He’s been an Access MVP since 2009, based in part on his ground breaking work integrating Access with .NET and helping other [...]
When to use a form’s recordset and when to use recordsetclone
Recordsets are an essential tool of any Access programmer, there are many types and are used in a wide range of situations, today we’re going to talk about form recordsets and provide some examples of their use. What are Form Recordsets? If your form has a data source, either a table or query, it has [...]
In San Jose/Aptos Area until May 26th 2011
Hello Everyone, Just wanted to let you know I’ll be in the San Jose/Aptos California area from May 17th through May 26th. I’m available for any Access/SQL Server user meetings or meetups with other Access enthusiasts to talk about Access and/or Access with SQL Server over coffee. Perhaps you’ve always wanted to try SQL Server for [...]
PAUG Conference Review
We just wrapped the PAUG conference held at Silver Falls, (Portland Oregon) and this is my review of the weekend spent with other Access enthusiasts. Database Designer Conference The conference brought together a wide range of Access developers, users and Access enthusiasts. It started on Saturday and concluded on Monday with session in the morning, [...]
Access IDE Part III: My favorite development tools
This is the third part of a three part series on the Access IDE. Part I can be found here and Part II here. IDE Tools I Love Life in the Access IDE is a little easier with specialized IDE tools. In this final article of the series I’m going to let you in on [...]
10 New Features I wished I had in the Access IDE
This is the second part of a three part series on the Access IDE. Part I can be found here and Part III here. 10. Colored Command Buttons Call me a fashionista, but I’d love to have colored command buttons! 9. Collapsible Procedures Would love to have a “+” next to each procedure header to collapse or expand [...]
