Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 10, 2025 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday explores a structured approach to safely rewrite a complex VBA function as a lightning-quick SQL Server scalar function.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 7, 2025 Highlights include easier-to-access code editor options, tB-based 64-bit XYplorer moving into beta, a color font label control, and windowed vs. windowless controls.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 5, 2025 Highlights include a faster alternative to DLookup, using AI to analyze an Access database, and an Access bug and subsequent fix related to Access wizards.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 3, 2025 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a deep dive into an underused tool in the VBA debugging toolkit: the Watch Window.
AUG Video Recap GET and POST with JSON with Neil Sargent & Leo theDBguy Real-World JSON API Integration: GET and POST Operations in Microsoft Access (an Access User Group talk with Neil Sargent)
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: June 30, 2025 Highlights include a new "Linked Package" feature, improvements to global search, an "Open With" integration for .vbp files, and a ListView SubItem Controls sample project.
Week in Review Week in Review: June 28, 2025 Highlights include an update to the Access Roadmap, MS365 forums moving from Microsoft Answers to Microsoft Q&A, and using CTEs in SQL Server.
AUG Video Recap Using Class Modules in the Real World with Anders Ebro Event-Driven Architecture and Custom Classes: Advanced Access Development Patterns (an Access User Group talk with Anders Ebro)
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: June 27, 2025 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is an homage to the fine art of software maintenance...and how we can make this thankless chore easier on our future selves.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: June 22, 2025 Highlights include a critical bug fix for the "Align to Grid" feature, a "Multi-Path Context Menu" project, and a high-performance, multi-threaded proof-of-concept server.
Week in Review Week in Review: June 21, 2025 Highlights include a video series on converting an Access app to Power Apps, a serious bug in preview versions of Access, and tips on creating stylish checkboxes.
AUG Video Recap Leveraging SQL Server SPROCs with George Hepworth Should Your Business Logic Live in the Database or Interface? (an Access User Group talk with George Hepworth)
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: June 19, 2025 This week's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about the tool we use to track hours at my software development company (plus how--and why--we got here).
AUG Video Recap Icons for Access using Metro with Greg Regan Metro Studio Integration: 7000+ Free Icons for Modern Access Interfaces (an Access User Group talk with Greg Regan)
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: June 16, 2025 Highlights include a new [Flags] attribute for auto-assigning bit flag values, a Windows security PIN/facial recognition demo, and XYplorer goes 64-bit with tB's help.
Week in Review 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.