Access Web App: at last a simple web database app builder from Microsoft

By tim, on July 25th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

One thing hardly mentioned in the press materials for Office 2013, and therefore mostly ignored in the immediate publicity, is Microsoft Access 2013. It is included though, and its most interesting new feature is a thing called an Access Web app.

To make one of these, you click the big “Custom web app” button

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July 25th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: cloud computing, microsoft, visual studio, Web | 3 comments

Microsoft LocalDB: another option for local databases

By tim, on January 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on  March 7th 2012. In Microsoft’s world “launches” do not always coincide with the availability of release code, which may come before or after, but they are usually not far apart.

The big news in SQL Server 2012 is in new BI (Business Intelligence) features and the ability to

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January 24th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: .net, microsoft, professional, sql | 6 comments

Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch

By tim, on August 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced a new edition of Visual Studio called LightSwitch, now available in beta, and it is among the most interesting development tools I’ve seen. That does not mean it will succeed; if anything it is too radical and might fail for that reason, though it deserves better. Here’s some of the things you

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August 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: .net, internet, microsoft, professional, silverlight, software development, visual studio, web authoring | 13 comments