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One of the biggest surprises for me with Visual Studio Tools for Office is that the parts of the Office suite which are supported are Excel and Word. Mainly that Access isn't (or doesn't appear to be - directly) one of the supported platforms. There's not been any mention in the Access 12 blog or the Access Developer Centre that I've seen of support for using .net as a development platform within Access. In fairness, Access already has a quite powerful forms package and the thought of the work that would go into interfacing that with the .net winforms package doesn't really bear thinking about.

But still, when oh when will Access be augmented so it's usable as a dot net development platform? Surely having code and datastore all in one file is the ultimate in One-Click deployment?