Throwback Thursday: February 6, 2025

We dive into the deep end of debugging VBA in today's edition of Throwback Thursday. We cover the Watch window, including how to avoid some nasty performance side effects.

Throwback Thursday: February 6, 2025

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

Watch Expression
A deeper than necessary dive into the exact expression evaluation behavior of the basic “Watch Expression” in VBA.
Break When Value Is True
When debugging VBA, you can watch an expression and halt code execution as soon as it evaluates to True. Let’s explore exactly how that works.
Break When Value Changes
When debugging VBA, you can watch an expression and halt code execution whenever its value changes. Let’s explore exactly how that works.

Wisdom from Around the Web

Learn VBA From a Master
Philipp Stiefel is on a very short list of people who I would pay to teach my employees how to write VBA.
Debugging VBA Code
Learn how to debug VBA code written by yourself or somebody else.

Developer Humor

Listening

Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing.

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All original code samples by Mike Wolfe are licensed under CC BY 4.0