Week in Review

Week in Review: October 8, 2022

Highlights include using Base64 encoding to embed images in Thunderbird, seven(!) IslaDogs articles, and episode 4 of Karl Donaubauer's Access NewsCast.

Mike Wolfe

Oct 8, 2022 • 2 min read

Just Published

^{This section includes videos, articles, and interesting discussions from the past 7 days.}

Articles

Draw Shortcut Keys in Access, by Crystal Long
Karl Donaubauer – Access News – 4th Edition, by Daniel Pineault
VBA – Thunderbird Automation With Embedded Images, by Daniel Pineault
Check Internet Connection Using Code, by Colin Riddington (aka, IslaDogs)
List Environ Variables, by Colin Riddington
Access News & Events, by Colin Riddington
Change Resolution Using Code, by Colin Riddington
Get Network Path, by Colin Riddington
List All Installed Apps, by Colin Riddington
Disable Design View In ACCDB Files, by Colin Riddington
No Business Can Serve Two Masters, but Your Business Data Can, by Maria Barnes
A GUID-Based Temporary File Name Generator, by Mike Wolfe
3 Ways to Generate Temporary File Names in VBA, by Mike Wolfe
SetPredeclaredId(): Change the Hidden PredeclaredId Attribute of a VBA Class Module, by Mike Wolfe
BUG ALERT: CurrentDb and DAO.OpenDatabase, by Mike Wolfe
Access NewsCast with Karl Donaubauer: Episode 4, by Mike Wolfe

Videos‌

Karl Donaubauer (YouTube channel)
- Access News: Episode 4 (24:31): News about Microsoft Access
Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
- First Day of the Year (10:00): How to Find the First and Last Days of This Year, Next Year, Previous Year in Microsoft Access
- Online Images (22:58): Display Online Images & Web Pages in Your Microsoft Access Database Using the Web Browser Control
Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)
- VBA - Self-Healing Object Variables (30:50)
- VBA-Thunderbird Automation (15:06): Embedding Images In The Message Body
- Windows Explorer Right-Click Context Menu Creator (19:06): Detailed overview of my Windows Right-Click Context Menu Creator and a demonstration of how it can be used for any Microsoft Office application (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, ...)

New to Me

^{This section includes content I discovered this week that has been around for awhile.}

The Slow March of Progress in Programming Language Tooling, by Adam Gordon Bell (interesting lessons for the nascent twinBASIC project...)
What Makes a Senior Engineer? Writing Software vs Building Systems, by Miłosz Piechocki

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Upcoming Access User Group Events

^{NOTE: Only English-language user group meetings with scheduled guest speakers or topics are listed. For a complete list of upcoming events, visit the Access User Group event calendar.}

October 25, 2022: Duane Hookom - Embedding a Table of Contents into a Report
November 2, 2022: George Hepworth - Power Apps for Access Developers
November 3, 2022: Ned Pajic - Hosting Access Applications "in the cloud"
December 7, 2022: Colin Riddington - Annotating Google Maps in Access
January 4, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
February 1, 2023: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between last week (2022-10-01) and this week (2022-10-08). The Access roadmap was last updated on May 31, 2022.

Listed below is a snapshot of the official Access Roadmap.

"In Development", "Rolling Out", and "Launched" are Microsoft terms that I pulled straight from the public roadmap.

"Development Priorities" do not appear on the Access Roadmap. Instead, they get updated from time to time in official Access blog posts. I'll include a link to the official Access blog post that lists the current development priorities as they get updated.

Development Priorities

The items listed below reflect Microsoft's order of priority and were published in the following article, Changes to Our Public Roadmap and How We Communicate Access Feature Priorities.

Inconsistent Database Error Fix
New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)
Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access
SQL Monaco Editor
New Microsoft Graph Data Connector

In Development

None.

Rolling Out