Version Control Access Version Control: A Quick Start Guide With this step-by-step guide, you'll be using version control with Access in under 20 minutes.
Commentary Microsoft MVP Summit 2024 Engaging with the Access team, exploring the future of VBA, and advocating for the Access community.
AI The One Policy That Proves Microsoft is All In on AI Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés would be proud.
Announcement twinBASIC at Access DevCon Vienna 2024 Join me at Access DevCon Vienna 2024 for my presentation on creating MZ-Tools-style VBIDE addins using twinBASIC.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 10, 2024 Highlights include a new Trace Mode debugging feature, improved IntelliSense performance, and details of my upcoming twinBASIC presentation at Access DevCon.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 9, 2024 Highlights include the new and improved Better Access Charts, combo box record lookup techniques, and an authoritative list of known MS Access bugs.
Version Control Five Types of Files to Exclude From MS Access Version Control The provided sample .hgignore and .gitignore files are good starting points when setting up new Microsoft Access version control repositories.
Tools Installing TortoiseHg: Step-by-Step Step-by-step instructions for installing my preferred distributed version control system (DVCS) for Access developers looking to get started with version control.
Version Control Installing the Access Version Control Add-in: Step-by-Step Looking to try version control with Microsoft Access? Start here by installing Adam Waller's free and open-source Version Control Addin for MS Access.
Version Control What's the Purpose of an Access Version Control Add-in? Access version control add-ins are not a replacement for Git, Subversion, or Mercurial.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: March 3, 2024 Highlights include rebranding the Problems panel as "Diagnostics" with expanded functionality, placeholders for the Description attribute, and tB v1 blockers.
Week in Review Week in Review: March 2, 2024 Highlights include the configuration of multiple VBA editor themes, how to create custom form navigation buttons, and moving/resizing continuous form columns.
Announcement Upcoming Presentation: Better Access Charts by Thomas Möller Thomas Möller is back with a much-anticipated follow-up to his earlier presentation on incorporating JavaScript charting frameworks in Microsoft Access.
Tools Customizing the VoidTools Everything File Search Utility with Custom Commands The latest insider version of the Everything search tool introduces a new killer feature.
Bug Alert RefreshLink Bug: "Primary key already exists" Workarounds, status updates, and forum discussion links for the RefreshLink bug from the fine folks at AccessForever.org.
Hiding Dupe Values Triggering Cache Invalidation on the Hidden Duplicate Values Form In this installment, we explore two different approaches for deciding when to invalidate our cache: user-triggered and automatic.
Hiding Dupe Values Invalidating the Cache on the Hidden Duplicate Values Form In this installment, we demonstrate how simple it is to refresh the cache when you use self-healing object variables.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 25, 2024 Highlights include reduced IDE memory consumption, two new projects from fafalone, and jpbro's clever solution to the biggest twinBASIC dev bottleneck.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 24, 2024 Highlights include a video review of recent Access bug fixes and 2024 priorities, hiding duplicate values in continuous forms, and an intro to form subclassing.
Hiding Dupe Values Use Caching to Speed Up Editable Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values In this installment, we reduce our database calls by more than 80% by shifting the bulk of the work to high-performing VBA dictionary structures.
Hiding Dupe Values Use Custom Functions to Hide Multi-Level Group Headers on Editable Continuous Forms In this installment, we use custom recordset-based VBA functions to implement multi-level group headers in an editable continuous form.
Hiding Dupe Values Use DCount() to Make Editable Continuous Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values In this installment, we use the DCount() domain aggregate function to create an editable continuous form with hidden group header values.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Left Joins In this installment, we use Bill Karwin's inequality LEFT JOIN technique to handle multi-column sorting without grinding everything to a halt.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Subqueries In this installment, we use GROUP BY subqueries to generate a read-only record source for a continuous form that hides duplicate header values.