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Access News – AEK26 – Access Team
Access News 9 features the Microsoft Access team's presentation at AEK on their current work and next plans for the product.
Karl Donaubauer
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Microsoft's Plans for Access Oct '24 – March '25
At AEK26, the Access team presented its engineering priorities from Oct ‘24 to March ’25. The list contains 2 expected items and 1 surprise.
Karl Donaubauer
Nov 7, 20242 min read
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Monaco SQL Editor
The long awaited Monaco SQL Editor is now in the 365 Current Channel. It includes color, syntax highlighting, Intellisense and autocomplete
Colin Riddington
Oct 31, 20243 min read
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Modern Chart Improvements
The first of two significant new Access features, Modern Chart Improvements, was released to the Current Channel in version 2409
Colin Riddington
Sep 26, 20242 min read
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Current Feature Work: Monaco Editor + Modern Chart Improvements
Microsoft's Access team shows the development status of two upcoming features: Monaco SQL editor and Modern Chart improvements, which...
Karl Donaubauer
May 10, 20241 min read
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Open Queries Directly in SQL View
Following a recent request, this new feature was rolled out to the Current Channel in version 2311 on 29 November. Versions affected:...
Colin Riddington
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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Access is finally Large Address Aware
The cover image shows the request on the former UserVoice page from 2017 to make Access Large Address Aware (LAA). 4 years ago, I gave an...
Karl Donaubauer
Nov 24, 20232 min read
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Microsoft's Plans for Access in the Next 6 Months
At our German Access conference AEK in mid-October, the Microsoft Access team reported on their work and plans for the next 6 months. As...
Karl Donaubauer
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Don't show the Design View Warning for Linked Tables
In version 2308 of Aug 28, Microsoft added a new option among 16 other bug fixes and changes . When you open a linked table in design...
Karl Donaubauer
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Now you CAN open more tables and databases
Two important changes were made to the Access architecture in version 2305 which was released to the Current Channel early in June 2023....
Colin Riddington
Jul 5, 20232 min read
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New Web Browser Control released
The long announced new web browser control based on Chromium/Edge is now available in the Current Channel build 16.0.16327.20214. It...
Karl Donaubauer
May 6, 20232 min read
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Access code signing is back
Whack! After only 15 years of waiting, with version 2212 of Access 365 from January 4 code signing for ACCDB/ACCDE files is available....
Karl Donaubauer
Jan 6, 20231 min read
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