Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: January 16, 2025 We explore the value of learning other programming languages and incorporating elements from them into VBA in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.
AUG Video Recap Converting ADP to ACCDB with Juan Soto Converting Legacy ADP Files to Modern Access ACCDB Format (an Access User Group talk with Juan Soto)
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: January 14, 2025 Highlights include official support for tB IDE themes, new UserControl events (PreKeyUp/PreKeyDown), and a big announcement from the XYplorer software team.
AUG Video Recap Modern Chart Improvements with Maria Barnes Modernize Your Access Reports with Ten Powerful New Chart Types (an Access User Group talk with Maria Barnes)
AUG Video Recap Relationships and Indexes with Crystal Long, Kent Gorrell, & Adrian Bell Hidden Indexes and Relationship Gotchas: Access vs SQL Server Deep Dive (plus a bonus discussion of bit flags) (an Access User Group talk with Crystal, Kent, and Ade).
Week in Review Week in Review: January 11, 2025 Highlights include creating COM add-ins with VB.Net, deploying Access updates, sorting MVFs, a current Access User Group list, and a new recurring section on End-of-Life dates.
AUG Video Recap Image Cataloguer in Access with Chris Arnold Organizing, tagging, and managing a large collection of images or photos with Microsoft Access (an Access Europe User Group presentation with Chris Arnold).
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: January 9, 2025 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about the DoEvents function: What it is; Where to use it; When to use it; Why it works; and How it works.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: January 7, 2025 Highlights include an experimental tab control, a New Year's sale on perpetual tB licenses, and a tB package with a Timer object and an INI config file reader object.
AUG Video Recap Using Web APIs in Access with George Young (2024 Edition) Can Your Access App Talk to the Web? A Guide to Web APIs (an Access User Group talk with George Young; updated for 2024).
Week in Review Week in Review: January 4, 2025 Highlights include a deep dive into `&` vs. `+` for joining strings, a how-to video on using inline queries (i.e., subqueries), and working with the KeyDown and KeyPress events.
AUG Video Recap Table Field Types with Mark Edwards Understanding Field Types in Microsoft Access: A Comprehensive Guide for Table Design (an Access Beginners User Group talk with Mark Edwards)
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: January 2, 2025 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit some of my favorite Allen Browne-inspired articles.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: December 30, 2024 Highlights include the 2024 Year in Review for twinBASIC along with several minor bug fix releases to address regressions introduced in last week's major BETA release.
AUG Video Recap Custom Ribbons Using CommandBars with Adrian Bell How to Create Custom Ribbons Using CommandBars in Microsoft Access (an Access Europe User Group talk with Adrian Bell)
Week in Review Week in Review: December 28, 2024 Highlights include customizing ribbons using command bars, details and migration guidance for New Outlook, and an analysis of when to index boolean fields.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: December 26, 2024 In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we tackle every programmer's favorite topic: Technical Debt.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: December 24, 2024 Highlights include the long-awaited release of BETA 623 (with major improvements to VB6 compatibility) and the announcement of a new twinBASIC Gold Sponsor: XYplorer.
Email The Truth About New Outlook: A Guide for IT Decision Makers With automatic migrations beginning January 2025, protecting your business-critical automations and custom solutions requires immediate attention.
Week in Review Week in Review: December 21, 2024 Highlights include image processing with ImageMagick, navigating forms in VBA with SetFocus and GoToControl, and using UI Automation to identify the current ribbon tab.
AUG Video Recap Table Design Fundamentals with Juan Soto Table Design Fundamentals in Microsoft Access: Best Practices for Beginners (an Access User Group talk with Juan Soto)
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: December 19, 2024 How do you loop by month in VBA? Coding it clearly is surprisingly difficult. We explore several approaches in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.
AUG Video Recap Building COM Add-ins with Geoffrey L. Griffith Building Office COM Add-ins with Visual Studio Tools: Part Two of a Two-Part Deep Dive (an Access Pacific user group talk with Crystal Long and Geoffrey L. Griffith)
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: December 17, 2024 Highlights include a new pending changelog, a more useful Excel XLL add-in proof of concept, and another major commercial VB6 project mulling a twinBASIC migration.