Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Thu Feb 18 10:17:56 CST 2010
Hi William --
Thank you for your notes. I have added them to the project's Issue Tracker.
Please feel free next time to add your notes directly there.
In setup folder of add-in there should be \Logs subfolder with a log file,
which could give me some clues why add-in hangs in some cases.
Please send it to me privately.
As I noted earlier this release was aimed at testing add-in setup for
different MS Access and MS Windows versions - and that worked well.
Add-in also works well with test databases supplied with it.
I hope most/all of the current issues can be solved but please take into
account that add-in uses undocumented feature, and it may happen that for
some cases it will not work at all...
It would be helpful if you can make an entry directly on project site (new
discussion viki) with links to the issues, which you qualify as critical,
and arranged in the order you wanted to have them fixed.
If I will not leave for short holiday next week then I will try to make
critical fixes that next week...
(Planned date for the next release - middle of March (in general I'm
planning currently one release for every month of this year))
I'm currently working for a customer project which is rather urgent for
release....
Thank you.
--
Shamil
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:29 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Add-In Express 2009 for MS Office and .NET -
Shamil
...found some time last night to play again with the Access.PowerTools
Add-In against a larger client application.
1. Export fails on any object with a "/", ")" or "(" in the file name
...gives you an error and then hangs.
2. Export fails on any linked table that doesn't actually exist ...came as a
surprise to me that the Access Linked Table Manager does not error on these
but actually confirms that the link exists!
3. Restore fails repeatedly with an "object extension not found" error
...never got a successful Restore on the 15Mb mdb I was working with, even
with all linked tables removed.
4. Error msgs are cryptic to say the least ...not complaining, just noting
that its an area that will have to be worked on at some point :))))
...don't know how you want to handle these ...I can post them on CodePlex
from now on if you prefer or continue to post them here ...or both ...which
ever you prefer.
...I'm waiting on your next revision before doing any further testing
William
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From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:53 AM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Add-In Express 2009 for MS Office and .NET -
> Thank you, Max!
>
> I have got published Access.PowerTools project on CodePlex -
> http://accesspowertools.codeplex.com/.
> All the issues you noted on are listed in this project Issue Tracker -
> http://accesspowertools.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx
>
> Everybody here are very welcome to try this Add-In software, and to post
> your feedback here or on project discussion area
> http://accesspowertools.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx (everybody
> registered
> to CodePlex and logged-in can comment on its projects, participate in
> discussions etc.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max (MGA)
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:38 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Add-In Express 2009 for MS Office and .NET -
>
> Aha!
>
> Got it, didn't realise it was on the menu bars. Sorry..duh.
>
> Ok, runs ok but not enough explanation of what is happening and what to
> expect. Backup and Restore seemed to go ok but "how would I know"?
> Needs
> a bit on hand-holding.
>
> No options to choose how tables should be exported (csv, xls, xml,
> data).
> I like the "plain data" that is good - ideal for pasting into Word etc. I
> will put that into my RemoteEatBloat program.
>
> Therefore, no option on which format to use to restore the tables.
>
> But, ran well, no problems that I could see.
>
> I will now run it on a "problem" mdb and report back.
>
> Thanks very much - excellent job
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
> Salakhetdinov
> Sent: 15 February 2010 20:24
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Add-In Express 2009 for MS Office and .NET -
>
> Hi Max --
>
> Please have a look:
>
> http://sms-web.biz/add-in-express/apce.jpg
>
> This is Access 2007.
> I tested also with Access 2003 - and that was not my development PC - and
> I
> have got PowerTools CommandBar there.
>
> Please note that for MS Access 2003 CommandBar is getting visible only
> when
> you have a database opened.
>
> Please note also that you have to run setup.exe - if you used
> [Right-Click]->[Install] with .msi file from setup kit it could not work
> properly.
>
> I must say I only tested large setup first on my three systems: Vista, XP
> and Windows Server 2003 - and that worked OK.
> After large setup installed/deinstalled small one worked OK also.
>
> Still learning "Add-In Express for Office and .NET" setup features - setup
> package is created by this tool "automagically" (and worked well here on
> three systems) - there could be some "blues" with it I expect - let's find
> them together...
>
> One can also ask/look at Add-In Express support forum
> (http://www.add-in-express.com/forum/index.php) - there are quite some
> info
> there and discussions are quite active - and they are positive mainly,
> btw,
> Andrei Smolin, you can find there is a former AccessD member (10+ years
> ago)...
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
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