No Longer Set

Week in Review: June 14, 2025

Highlights include a series on implementing Accounts Payable in an Access app, orchestrating Excel/PowerPoint/Word from Access, and adding a timeout to MsgBoxes.

AUG Video Recap

Update! Update! The Company is in a State! (with Karl Donaubauer)

How to Protect Your Access Apps from Breaking Microsoft Updates (an Access User Group talk with Karl Donaubauer)

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: June 12, 2025

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is an homage to the "citizen developer"--largely responsible for Access's 30-year domination in the desktop database market.

AUG Video Recap

Professional Troubleshooting with Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young

Professional Troubleshooting Techniques for Microsoft Access Applications (an Access User Group talk with Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young)

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: June 10, 2025

Highlights include a new [ComExport] attribute, a new "TWINBASIC_BUILD_TYPE" compiler constant, and the continued expansion of the WinDevLib project.

Week in Review

Week in Review: June 7, 2025

Highlights include a major ADP project rewrite, creating a WIA image manipulation class in VBA, and a new release of Maria Barnes's VBA-MS Graph project.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: June 5, 2025

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore two common data structures used to store multiple objects in VBA: Collections and Dictionaries.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: June 2, 2025

Highlights include compiler performance improvements and a kernel-mode mini-filter driver sample project written in twinBASIC.

Week in Review

Week in Review: May 31, 2025

Highlights include adding timestamps to digitally signed Access projects, tips to improve Access/Windows scrollbars, and a report from the global data event in Valencia.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: May 29, 2025

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit one of my favorite techniques: guard clauses--my secret weapon for avoiding Dante Alighieri-levels of nesting.

AUG Video Recap

Selling Access with SQL Server Jobs with Juan Soto

Building a Seven-Figure Microsoft Access Consulting Practice from Scratch (an Access User Group talk with Juan Soto)

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: May 26, 2025

Highlights include a sneak peek of a game-changing AI add-in for the twinBASIC editor, achieving 100% syntax coverage of VB6/VBA, and improved user control support in Access.

Week in Review

Week in Review: May 24, 2025

Highlights include OCR with VBA, highlighting the current record and active control, the State of Access with MVP Maria Barnes, and a comparison of file-reading approaches.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: May 22, 2025

We revisit one of my all-time favorite articles in today's edition of Throwback Thursday. The topic is dry (LLCs, S Corps, and C Corps, oh my!), but the writing is not.

AUG Video Recap

Chat with Other Access Developers on Discord with Jim Dettman and Doug Yudovich

Discord for Access Developers: A New Way to Connect and Collaborate (an Access User Group talk with Jim Dettman and Doug Yudovich)

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: May 19, 2025

Highlights include increased compile speed for large projects and a sample twinBASIC project for implementing Windows "Toast" notifications.

Week in Review

Week in Review: May 17, 2025

Highlights include a short video series on implementing a record "Recycle Bin", creating custom nav icons with the free Metro Studio, and a reasoned plea for an Access AI Copilot.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: May 15, 2025

This week's Throwback Thursday article features tips, tricks, and tools for tracking down hard-to-diagnose bugs.

DevCon

Power Automate with VBA with Ynte Jan Kuindersma

Extend Your Access Applications with Cloud Services Using Power Automate (an Access DevCon Vienna talk with Ynte Jan Kuindersma)

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: May 12, 2025

Highlights include expanded support for creating Monaco editor shortcut keys, sokinkeso's CopyPasteEx Addin, and sample code to detect text language using Win APIs.

Week in Review

Week in Review: May 10, 2025

Highlights include a workaround for VBA's case-changing "feature", using SQL Server SPROCs with Access and PowerApps, and DISTINCT vs. DISTINCTROW.

AUG Video Recap

Using VBA to Create a Class Based on a Table with Adolph Dupré

Can Your Code Write Better Class Modules Than You? (an Access User Group talk with Adolph Dupré)

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: May 8, 2025

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about scripting major SQL Server operations like backing up, cloning databases, and server migrations.

Code Library

How To: Enforce Consistent Letter Casing in VBA

Conquer VBA's case-changing "feature" once and for all with this simple, brute-force solution: the StandardizeLetterCasing() function.

DevCon

Proven Sales Strategies with Juan Soto

How to Command Higher Rates for Your Access Development Services (an Access DevCon Vienna talk with Juan Soto)