News on Wi-Fi security

Brian Livingston analyze today's Wi-Fi security options

Doug's Access Answers column

Access MVP Doug Steele writes a column in Smart Access every month, here you can download his articles. Interesting staff!

GPS Locator for children

Interesting device offered here, something similar we already saw in movies. So next is to have such device under the skin?

Translator 1.135 released

Can be downloaded here
One potential customer noted today that his MDB file does not have a DAO reference, only ADO, and modules, created by Translator does not run. Of course! Same if both references are selected - DAO and ADODB. So now we have explicitly declared recordsets as DAO.Recordset, same for other DAO objects. Translator also detects if DAO reference exists, if no - it display a following message:
"Your application does not have a reference to DAO, which is required to have Translator modules run correctly. Please open any module, go to menu Tools-References and select a "Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library" there."

Finally got my MVP badge

Don't know why it took so much time to arrive, 7 months, but here it is:

How nerd is your wife?

Here a score of Inna:

And we expect Office 12 delivered

Chris Capossela: we expect to deliver the final programs, servers and services in the second half of 2006. More then one year... It should be something!

Access and Office 12

here it is mentioned that we expect "beta toward the end of this year"

Is form opened as subform?

You can have a form which can be opened as standalone, and as a subform in other form. In second case you could need a reference to parent form to pass it some results, or hide some controls when form is a subform. So you need to know - how form is loaded? Use a SysCmd function to do this:

If SysCmd(acSysCmdGetObjectState, acForm, Me.Name) = 0 Then
'Form loaded as a subform
...
Else
'Loaded stand-alone
....
End If

Is array dimentioned?

Interesting trick was mentioned in VB Classic list - how to check if dynamic array already dimensioned? Answer is Not operator. Before i used a universal method - On Error Resume Next. Here a sample procedure:

Sub TestArray()
Dim A() As Long
'ReDim A(1 To 4)

If (Not A) = -1 Then
'not dimensioned
Debug.Print (Not A)
Else
'dimensioned
Debug.Print UBound(A)
End If
End Sub

This works in VB6 and Access 2003. But does not work in Access 97.
Few treads can be also found in Google Groups, for example this one.

Query from Access page on OMP

Query from Access page was published yesterday on Office Market Place. Today i got 7 hits from it, one was mine.

How nerd you are?

A nice test here, i am somewhere in the middle:

Неожиданный Задорнов

В группах новостей случайно наткнулся на сайт Михаила Задорнова, оказалось что он не только юморист, рекомендую почитать Мамы и войны.

AttachDB 2.0.90 was released

Correctly determine latest SQL Server build of SQL Server 2000 SP4
Registered users will get new version via internet update

ActiveX control to host Office documents

Quite interesting control Dsoframer.ocx can be found in this KB article - ActiveX control that acts as an ActiveX document container for hosting Office documents (including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio documents).
Some interesting properties and methods:

// Generated .IDL file (by the OLE/COM Object Viewer) // // typelib filename:
DSOFRAMER.OCX

typedef enum {
dsoDialogNew = 0,
dsoDialogOpen = 1,
dsoDialogSave = 2,
dsoDialogSaveCopy = 3,
dsoDialogPrint = 4,
dsoDialogPageSetup = 5,
dsoDialogProperties = 6
} dsoShowDialogType;



typedef enum {
dsoFileNew = 0,
dsoFileOpen = 1,
dsoFileClose = 2,
dsoFileSave = 3,
dsoFileSaveAs = 4,
dsoFilePrint = 5,
dsoFilePageSetup = 6,
dsoFileProperties = 7,
dsoFilePrintPreview = 8
} dsoFileCommandType;


[id(0x00010013), propput, helpstring("Returns/sets whether a menu bar should be
displayed.")]
HRESULT Menubar([in] VARIANT_BOOL pbool);

[id(0x00010014), propput, helpstring("Returns/sets host application name (used
in embedding).")]
HRESULT HostName([in] BSTR pbstr);

[id(0x00010016), helpstring("Prints current document to specific printer with
settings.")]
HRESULT PrintOut(
[in, optional] VARIANT PromptUser,
[in, optional] VARIANT PrinterName,
[in, optional] VARIANT Copies,
[in, optional] VARIANT FromPage,
[in, optional] VARIANT ToPage,
[in, optional] VARIANT OutputFile);

[id(0x00000001), helpstring("Called when File menu item is selected by user (may
be canceled).")]
HRESULT OnFileCommand(
[in] dsoFileCommandType Item,
[in, out] VARIANT_BOOL* Cancel);

[id(0x00000002), helpstring("Called when document is opened or new document
added.")]
HRESULT OnDocumentOpened(
[in] BSTR File,
[in] IDispatch* Document);

[id(0x00000003), helpstring("Called when document is closed.")]
HRESULT OnDocumentClosed();

IDL and ATL/COM will never die

1st of May slogans and memoirs of Shamil Salakhetdinov

How to output reports into PDF

Some our clients like this, of course - more then built-in snapshot format, because everyone can open PDF. PDF995 is a free printer driver, which allows to do this, and you can also make a procedure to make whole export automated. I personally like more Microsoft Office Document Imaging, but again - not everybody can read its *.mdi files.

ActiveX controls from Teebo

A nice set of UI ActiveX controls, Office 2003 style, from Teebo. Don't know yet if it really works in Access, but in VB6 works fine.