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Produced by Garry Robinson (known below as "Ed") from Sydney, Australia.

In this edition

Red Cross Donations
Conclusion Of The Responses For The Next Version Of Access
MSN Toolbar Searching Suite and More On Desktop Searching
Good Reading

 

As I write this newsletter, news broadcasts on the TV bring more and more bad news from the countries of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India and beyond. To help out in a very minor way, you can donate to Red Cross USA through a process setup by Amazon.com. Anyway head to 

Amazon Donation Page

and use the link on that home page to Amazon. It only takes a few minutes, the payments are all managed through Amazons One Step credit card technology and the donations are anonymous if you choose. Of course I encourage you to make a donation with your own countries Aid agencies and if you have helped out already, well done.

Garry

Now to a rather subdued newsletter

Conclusion Of The Responses For The Next Version Of Access

At Smart Access for most of January, you can read the article that I wrote to summarize what the readers of that magazine and this newsletter requested from Microsoft for the next version of Access. 

To read the article for free in January Click Here

MSN Toolbar Searching Suite and More On Desktop  Searching

Microsoft rushes into the Desktop search engine war with a beta product of their own
http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/

Go to Woodies for a good wrap up of all the desktop search engines.
http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/archives.asp

What files does Google desktop search index
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12634

GOOD READING

Download a major update to the VBA Help File for Access 2003
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/downloads/vba/

Safeguard settings in your code
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/ProtectYourData/default.aspx

Log Off Idle Users
http://www.candace-tripp.com/access_downloads.htm

A Look at WebChart, a Free .NET Charting Control http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1a0a,1,g1bf,2elt,39gr,amjy

While commercial charting options have their place, they might be too costly for a small project.  This article provides a quick overview of a free .NET charting tool from Microsoft employee Carlos Aguilar Mares called WebChart. 

Term of the Week: Obfuscate
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1a0a,1,1xva,l0go,39gr,amjy
In general use in English, obfuscate means to obscure, hide, or confuse.

It means the same thing in programming, where a developer will obfuscate code to obscure, hide, or confuse the meaning of code.

Things to do with HTML help
Click here for the page at Microsoft

Danny Lessandrini demonstrates a few query tricks in Access
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/3444891

Microsoft has created a set of libraries known as Application Blocks which help developers reduce the amount of code they must write—while using current best practices. One of the components, Data Access Application Block for .NET, addresses Microsoft SQL Server data access by wrapping up data access into a helper class. 
http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/22641

WRAPPING THIS EDITION UP

So thanks for reading our popular newsletter.  Feel free to make comments, copy the email to a friend or maybe even contribute to the next edition. And if you can, have a look at our software by using the Marketing section on the left hand side of this newsletter. If you really like this newsletter, why not purchase The Toolbox and you will get all the other newsletters and plenty more in a developer’s knowledge base tool with super searching facilities.

All the best for the New Year.

Garry Robinson - Software Consultant and Author
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Sydney, Australia.
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