Learn to create a COM add-in that adds a custom tab, group, and other controls to the user interface.
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Video: Create Add-ins to Customize the Office 2010 Backstage View
Video: Create Add-ins to Customize the Office 2010 Backstage View
Access 2010 deprecated features and components
This post provides an overview of features and components that will be deprecated in the upcoming release of Access 2010. A decision to remove a feature or component from the product is never a trivial one; we therefore have put a lot of thought when deciding to remove functionality.
Dashboard graphics in forms and reports
Mike Alexander, Excel MVP recently sent us a pointer to a blog post with some cool ideas to spice up your application with data visualizations . Here is a quick sample: Mike didn’t mention attachments in his post but the attachment control works really well for storing images
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Dashboard graphics in forms and reports
Manage large groups of controls by using the Tag property
Today’s guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . In Smart Access Answers , Doug Steele was asked “What if I have a number of different controls–say, text boxes, labels, and check boxes and I want to make them invisible or visible when a form is being used?
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Manage large groups of controls by using the Tag property
Implement the Ribbon UI in Windows Forms
Some of us Excel developers like the Ribbon UI while others find it more difficult to work with it. No matter what we developers think about it exist a growing number of clients requiring that the Ribbon UI to be implemented in .NET based Excel solutions. Microsoft offers no controls that can be used to implement any Ribbon UI solution so we are forced to decide which third-party controls package to be used. Of cause, most large vendors, such as Component One et al, offer components that can be used but they can be rather expensive. DotNetBar from DevComponents is an inexpensive controls package including controls for the Ribbon UI. I have been using the package for a while in clients solutions. DotNetBar includes 47 controls whereof some controls allow us to create a Ribbon UI in Windows Forms
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Implement the Ribbon UI in Windows Forms