Thanks to Brent Spaulding, Access MVP, who pointed to " Use sandbox mode in Access 2007 " article, explaining how to enable/disable sandbox mode, which blocks unsafe expressions. In case you using Vista 64 - this key located find under: HKEY_LOC

Exciting add-in - SimplyVBA Global Error Handler for Visual Basic for Applications , which gives you an opportunity to forget writing error handing for VBA projects. It simply replaces any unhandled error message, which breaks application at runtime, with

English/Dutch speaking people should be happy that they do not need to know about codepage. But we, Russian programmers, very good know what it means. The problem that there is one kind of codepage in MS-DOS, and different - in Windows. You can write text

Recently I made an activex control to measure PDF floor plan (see below). The most difficult thing was to load PDF in picturebox. Fortunately I found ImageMagick library, which can not only convert almost any graphic file to another, but also process imag

Microsoft Access or SQL Server 2005: What's Right in Your Organization article by Luke Chung can help you and your customers to make a right choice.

Interesting technique - Zip file or files with the default Windows XP zip program , never thought of it, but always used 3rd party zip utilities.

Wayne Phillips from iTech Masters discusses new encryption aspects in Access 2007 . Looking forward to read an upcoming Part2 , but the main question is – can you break this encryption ? Remember how easy he had reverse engineered MDE ! Technorati t

Some days ago my client asked me why 2 workstations loosing connection every 30 minutes. Only restart of PC (!) helps to run application again! First guess was that something wrong with network for these PCs, but no, network was ok. Finally he noticed tha

Bob Heifler from MyAccessProgram.com pointed me to these video tutorials, which can be useful mostly for novice Access users: How to write Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions How to create a Subroutine using VBA programming code How to write err

Tony Toews , Access MVP, mentioned this post - Nested msi with custom action : msp file . Update: Sascha Trowitzsch , Access MVP, have written a tutorial on how to create the patched runtime.