Week in Review: November 5, 2022

Congratulations to the newest Microsoft Access MVP, mi buen amigo, Juanjo Luna!  Well deserved.

Just Published

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

Articles

• Maria Barnes (Business Data Bytes Newsletter)

  • What is a Data Fabric?

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • VBA – FSO Files, Folders, Drives and More
  • VBA – Bring a Window to the Front Without Knowing Its Hwnd or Title
  • VBA – Ribbon Automation Via UIAutomation
  • VBA – Find A Window By Its Title and Bring It To The Front

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • UPDATED: Compare Control Help Text Methods

• Crystal Long (Ms Access Gurus | Access Access Newsletter)

  • Basic SQL Syntax
  • Draw Boxes around Text in Access for Shortcuts Report

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Using Temp Tables as Report Record Sources
  • What does RBAR mean?
  • Sorting Arrays of Strings in Access with WizHook
  • Checking Version Compatibility with NetOffice
  • What is rowversion in SQL Server?

Videos‌

• Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)
  • Control Help Text (17:44): 5 Ways of Providing Control Help Text
• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
  • RecordCount (20:40): How to Show What Record You're On and How Many Total Records There Are in Your Microsoft Access Form
  • TimeValue (16:19): Use the TimeValue Function to Get Just the Time Portion of a DateTime Field in Microsoft Access
  • Hour Minute Second (11:32): Find the Busiest Times of the Day Using the Hour, Minute, and Second Functions in Microsoft Access
  • DateValue (11:46): Use the DateValue Function to Get Just the Date Portion of a DateTime Field in Microsoft Access
• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)
  • The Danger of FileLen (3:38)
  • VBA - Creating Directories (12:24)
  • VBA – Bring a Window to the Front - Part 1 (10:54)
  • VBA – Bring a Window to the Front - Part 2 (20:42)
• Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube MS Access playlist)
  • Help Users with Tags (5:15): Tag Property Examples for Assisting Users on a Form

New to Me

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

• How to communicate effectively as a developer, by Karl Sutt
• Bang Vs. Dot in Forms, by Roger Carlson

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.}

• December 7, 2022: Colin Riddington - Annotating Google Maps in Access
• December 13, 2022: Juan Soto - Access with SQL Server Academy Part II (review Part I here)
• January 4, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
• January 31, 2023: Colin Riddington -  Translate & Speak Using Access
• February 1, 2023: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts
• March 1, 2023: Maria Barnes - Optimizing Queries in SQL Server
• June 7, 2023: Thomas Pfoch - Maps for Microsoft Access

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Access Roadmap

There were no changes to the roadmap between last week (2022-10-29) and this week (2022-11-05).  The development priorities were last updated on October 12, 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, Our Road Ahead - Microsoft Access Engineering Priorities Oct 2022.

New priorities added since the previous set of priorities are shown in bold below.  Dropped priorities are struck through.

1. Continued Focus on Monthly Issue Fixes (Monthly Issue Fix Blog)
2. Inconsistent Database Error Fix
3. New Macro Signing Support
4. New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)
5. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Floating Point
6. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Rich Text
7. Dataverse Connector support to export to a specific Dataverse solution or publisher
8. Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access
9. SQL Monaco Editor
10. New Microsoft Graph Data Connector

In Development

None.

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

• MAY 2022: Access Dataverse Connector