Week in Review Week in Review: July 27, 2024 Highlights include using a framework in Access, one Redditor's quixotic quest for an Access replacement, and localization efforts leading to British waterautumns.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 25, 2024 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about the dangers of password reuse and a couple of tools to help you avoid the temptation.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 22, 2024 Highlights include two blockbuster features that Access developers will instantly recognize: an Access-style report writer and a lightweight expression service.
Bug Alert Access + Outlook PDF Bug Has Outlook recently started freezing when trying to send PDFs via email from Microsoft Access? If so, you may be a victim of the latest bug from Microsoft.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 20, 2024 Highlights include my VBA logging framework, a visual explanation of bubble sort, and how to properly relate students and parents in a relational database.
Class Modules clsLog: A VBA Logging Framework Introducing clsLog, the no-frills logging framework. Prepare to supercharge your Access logging with the closest thing to NLog or Log4j in the VBA world.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 18, 2024 Today's edition is all about Unicode, character sets, and Windows Alt Codes. It turns out English is NOT the world's only written language. Who knew?!?!
VBA 3 Methods of Logging in VBA Let's explore the various ways to log information in our Microsoft Access applications.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 15, 2024 Highlights include another week of progress on the upcoming report writer, including another sneak peek video of the feature.
Bug Alert Bug Fix: Generic / Text Only Printer Driver Memory Error Microsoft released a fix for the error, "There isn't enough free memory to update the display," when printing to the Generic/Text Only Printer Driver.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 13, 2024 Highlights include a talk on enhancing message boxes and forms, fun with text boxes, resizing list box columns to fit the content, and a deep dive into New Outlook.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 11, 2024 For those new to databases (and seasoned pros), queries are a mind-bogglingly amazing and infuriatingly obstinate tool. These tips help tame the beast.
Commentary Killing VBA in Outlook: Reduced Functionality is the Whole Point In the name of security and cross-platform compatibility, Microsoft is intentionally neutering one of its flagship applications.
Commentary Why You Should Take Client Psychology Into Account as an Access Developer Should you pay off your mortage early or invest? The answer depends on both math AND psychology. The same is true when working with clients.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 8, 2024 Highlights include a sneak preview of a coming report writer, plus support for accessing the Printers collection by printer name.
Week in Review Week in Review: July 6, 2024 Highlights include a better way to see your queries, adapting your Access apps to improve gender/sex inclusivity, and a plea to Microsoft to keep VBScript.
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: July 4, 2024 Happy Independence Day, America! (Or as my family in Scotland prefers to greet us on this glorious anniversary, "Happy Treason Day, you ungrateful colonists.")
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: July 3, 2024 Highlights include initial Printer object support, a new PDF Merge utility from fafalone, and an answer to one redditor's burning question.
Week in Review Week in Review: June 29, 2024 Highlights include data analysis tips and techniques from MVP Luke Chung, a modern VBA-based slider control, and a wrapper class template wizard.
Bug Alert Bug Fix: Access Version 2406 Fixes the Slow Forms and Crashing Bug From 2405 A bug fix is here for the error introduced with last month's Access update (which has been causing slow form performance and occasional crashing for affected users).
Throwback Thursday Throwback Thursday: June 27, 2024 Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about naming things, one of the two hard problems in computer science.
Bug Alert Generic Text Only Printer Driver Bug "There isn't enough free memory to update the display." Recent Windows Updates are causing this bug to appear on reports that use the Generic/Text Only Printer Driver.
VBA How to Get the String Values of an Enum in VBA Getting the string values for enums in VB.NET is easy using the built-in ToString method. What's the VBA equivalent?
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: June 24, 2024 Highlights include a new multi-line caption-editing dialog, implementation of several missing VB6 control properties, and advanced pointer handling via CType(Of ).
Week in Review Week in Review: June 22, 2024 Highlights include a new bug causing crashes in Access version 2405, a primer on integrating ImageMagick into Access, and a new VBA IDE on the horizon(?!).