Registration-free COM

If you are building applications with ActiveX controls, then you can have problems distributing it, because of Admin privileges required to install ActiveX controls. There is a new COM activation model called Registration-free COM introduced in Windows XP, which can help you in this case. Read this article to find more about Reg-Free COM.

Update. One more link to read on this topic.

Access will export reports to Excel … again!

Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System will bring back export to Excel feature for Access reports, finally! Thanks to Bob Larson, Access MVP, who pointed me to this link! Check out other SP2 improvements.

MS Access SQL Injection

MS Access SQL Injection Cheat Sheet, it is not so dangerous like for SQL Server, but still – if you are using Access database for your web site – be aware of it!