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Name:Alex Dybenko

Location:Moscow, Russia

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

My MVP Profile published

Looks like new version of MVP profile get published. Here mine

Missed mouse wheel functionality in VBA window?

Fellow MVP Tony Toews just pointed me to nice utility - FreeWheel provides mouse wheel support for VBA window in Access and other VBA hosts.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

How to get image files from Access OLE objects

This old article shows an example how to save image OLE object as a file, it also documents a object header structure.

AttachDB 2.0.88 was released

  • correctly determine latest SQL Server build 8.0.818 (MS03-31)
  • bug fixed - delay appear during displaying internet update dialog
  • other small fixes

Registered users will get new version via internet update

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Windows Application Compatibility

Microsoft have pablished Application Compatibility Toolkit to test applications compatibility with Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Freeware Installers

Here you can find 2 nice tools to build setups. With Installer2GO you can even build a reliable MSI installation scripts! Both are free!

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Wildcards in Select statement

MVP Ken Snell showed a nice way to use wildcards in Select:
Select Case True
Case (MyVariableName Like "*10280")
' do things here if the match is valid
Case (MyVariableName Like "*99999")
' do things here if the match is valid
End Select

Cool!

Friday, March 18, 2005

How to copy commandbars to another DB

Here a nice sample from Shamil Salakhetdinov

How to fix VS.NET after addin uninstall

This article could be quite useful when this happens to you.