Throwback Thursday: December 5, 2024

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With over a million words scattered across more than 1,300 articles on this blog, you've probably missed a few things here.

That’s why each week in "Throwback Thursday," we’ll revisit some standout posts. Expect a blend of my personal favorites, insightful articles from other great minds, and a touch of coding humor to keep things light.

Highlights from NoLongerSet.com

A Safer Way to Use TempVars
The TempVars object is an intriguing alternative to traditional global variables, but it has some shortcomings. Here’s one way to work around them.
No Longer SetMike Wolfe
TV: The TempVars Class Module
A TempVars class module that provides visibility, type safety, IntelliSense, and compile-time typo checks.
No Longer SetMike Wolfe
GenerateTVClass(): Auto-Create a TempVars Class Module
The culmination of my TempVars series, this article shows you how to generate a TempVars class module from a local table.
No Longer SetMike Wolfe

Wisdom from Around the Web

Access – TempVars | DEVelopers HUT
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Access TempVars (Temporary Variables). How to create, retrieve and delete TempVars in either VBA or through Macros.
DEVelopers HUTDaniel Pineault
A Safer Way to Use TempVars
Still in new year holidays and having nothing to do, I’m trying to understand what Mike Wolfe’s trying to achieve in this article: https://nolongerset.com/a-safer-way-to-use-tempvars/ It seems that he adds a tempvar and then in the class, he sets a property to read the value of a tempvar and…
Access World Forumsarnelgp

Developer Humor

Code Lifespan

Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this architecture is/spend a huge amount of effort painstakingly preserving and updating this garbage I wrote in 20 minutes)Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this architecture is/spend a huge amount of effort painstakingly preserving and updating this garbage I wrote in 20 minutes)

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