Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons

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Begin by downloading VWD from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

vwd/ and installing it on your computer. When you first launch it, VWD presents a rather intimi-

dating opening screen (see Figure 29.27).

FIGURE 29.27

Visual Web Developer’s opening screen

The opening screen contains links to Web sites and pages related to using VWD, as well as naviga-

tion aids to help you organize and manage Web sites created with VWD.

For this demonstration, choose File ➪ New File to open the New File dialog box (see Figure 29.28).

Notice that VWD is proficient at creating any of a number of different file types, including XML.

Selecting the XML option opens the XML editor (see Figure 29.29), ready for your Access ribbon

XML code.

And, that’s about all there is to VWD as far as working with XML. The primary advantage of using

a tool such as VWD is that it understands XML and performs basic syntax checking to help you

compose valid XML. Also, VWD supports multiple open documents at one time, making it quite

easy to copy XML from one window and paste into another. And, although you can’t tell from the

figures in this book, the XML code in Figure 29.29 is color-coded to indicate which words are key-

words, which are identifiers, and which are XML tags.

Together, these features make VWD a compelling addition to any developer’s toolkit.