Hidden Features Careful What You Watch For Can the simple act of creating a Watch change the behavior of your code while debugging? Why yes, yes it can.
Advanced JetShowPlan: A Primer You may be familiar with JetShowPlan, but I guarantee you've never read an article about it quite like this one.
Hidden Features VBA's Case Changing "Feature" VBA likes to change the casing of our code (upper/lower/mixed). It may seem random, but it's not. Read all the details here.
Hidden Features Blast From the Past Why use keyboard shortcuts from Access 2003 when developing in 2020? Because starting with Access 2007, the new shortcuts suck.
Hidden Features VBA Alchemy: Turning Methods Into Properties One can check the status of screen painting in Excel, but not in Access. This turns out to be an important shortcoming. Let's remedy it.
Code Library Creating Optional Dependencies Using conditional compilation to avoid the "Dependency Train" problem.
Error Handling Graduate Level Error Handling Once again, I borrowed an idea from Python. To smuggle this concept into VBA, I turned to a rarely-used language feature...
Code Library One Thing at a (Hundred) Times How to use Run() and GetTickCount() for some quick and dirty performance profiling. Come for the code, stay for the scolding on premature optimization.
Hidden Features A Rounding We Will Go Two kinds of rounding, the VBA language spec vs. the Office VBA implementation, and a drop-in replacement for VBA.Round().
Hidden Features Expressions vs. Code When is code not code? When it's an expression. What's the difference and who really cares? Let's explore.
Hidden Features Wherefore art thou, database properties? In my previous post, I talked about adding custom properties to the database object. I covered how to do it, but did not go into any detail about why you might want to do it. Let's remedy that now.
Hidden Features Database Properties for Thee The DAO Database object has a Properties collection. You can read through the list of properties to extract saved database options. You can also add your own properties to the object.
