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Science & Technology ]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSsbJj4TVPM&feature=youtube_gdata/feed/ 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-Making-of-Office-2010-Abigail-Welborn-Software-Development-Engineer-Microsoft-Access/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-Making-of-Office-2010-Abigail-Welborn-Software-Development-Engineer-Microsoft-Access/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 09:48:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/2/1/4/9/4/5/Makingof2010AbigailWel_2MB_ch9.wmv The Making of Office 2010 is a series of videos that takes you behind the scenes with those who are responsible for creating Microsoft Office 2010.  This is Abigail Welborn, she is a software Development Engineer with Microsoft Access.  She talks about the features she worked on with Access 2010 primarily the Calculated Field.]]> The Making of Office 2010 is a series of videos that takes you behind the scenes with those who are responsible for creating Microsoft Office 2010.  This is Abigail Welborn, she is a software Development Engineer with Microsoft Access.  She talks about the features she worked on with Access 2010 primarily the Calculated Field.

Today’s guest is Jeff Conrad, co-author of the book, Access 2007 Inside Out, and a tester on the Access Services team. During this episode, Jeff talks about his upcoming book, Access 2010 Inside Out, discusses how he built a completely web-based restaurant management system using Access, and walks us through the system’s features, including data macros, custom reports, filtering, and client functionality.

Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is experiencing very high traffic due to MIX10 session content. To resolve this, we will be blocking access to the MIX sessions temporarily while they copy all of the MIX sessions into various edge caches around the world.

The end result of this work will be to resolve all of the poor streaming/buffering issues that we’ve been seeing on all of our properties, including Channel 9, Edge, live.visitmix.com and others.

We expect access to be re-enabled later today, with a current estimate of 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Thanks for your patience!

Meet Malori! Malori is a paralegal in Microsoft’s legal department. She manages patent applications and assigns them out to attorneys and portfolio managers as well as other paralegals. Malori was looking for a way to make her team more efficient by presenting all of the information they needed in a single web page or application. Our team jumped in and made an Access Services solution, which allows her to manage all the data and provide custom views to her teammates. Today this web database is used by over 80 attorneys working on different cases at Microsoft.

In today’s episode, Malori shares her experience with Access Services and how it has helped her be more efficient.

Learn more about Access 2010 on the team blog.

In this episode, Kerry Westphal gives a quick tour of the macro designer and how to write logic for Access Services/SharePoint databases. The macro designer is a revamped editor that allows you to automate repetitive tasks, wire together forms and reports to create productive UI, and implement business logic in Access databases. For web databases, UI macros are translated into JavaScript in the browser and data macros are translated to workflows in SharePoint.

For additional information about the latest release, check out the Access 2010 Intro series on the Access team blog.

As with most performance work, beauty is in the eye of the user. When users work against a server on the other side of the world, performance makes a difference. Data, after all, only travels as fast as the speed of light. Our goal for Access 2010 was to make the connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. Additionally, we had to ensure requests didn’t swamp the server, bottleneck throughout the network, or cause the client machine’s CPU or RAM to thrash. We found that caching data in local tables, combined with conservative usage of resources on the server, network and local machine, provided the best user experience.

This Access 2010 performance improvement builds upon the Access 2007 architecture. Read more…

For additional information about the latest release, check out the Access 2010 Intro series on the Access team blog.

Microsoft has an internal classified ads Web site that allows employees to buy and sell stuff—think of it as a company Craigslist. Barath Balasubramanian a tester on the Access team decided to recreate the app using Access 2010. I asked Barath to join us on The Access Show for a little show and tell. He plans to share it on Office Online once we ship Access 2010 (it will automatically show up inside the Access’ BackStage New page). In the meantime Barath has shared a beta  copy on UtterAccess.

Hopefully, it inspires some of you with new ideas for the contest.

You can download the sample code from here