Week in Review: November 19, 2022

Just Published

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

Articles

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • The Day I Stopped Using FireFox

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • The Power of Data
  • Hide Sensitive Data
  • UPDATED: Translate and Speak
  • UPDATED: Control the Application Interface
  • UPDATED: Attention Seeking Database
  • UPDATED: CDO EMail Tester

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

  • What is ASCII for each character?

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Learning From Other Coding Styles
  • Learning From Other Languages
  • The Reason MS Access Forms and Reports are Limited to 22 Inches
  • Select Entire Module in VBA With Control + Click
  • Select Entire Sub or Function in VBA with a Double-Click

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)
  • ESP: Controle la interfaz de la aplicación y busque la atención del usuario (Control the Application Interface) (1:32:19): Colin Riddington (English with Spanish subtitles)
• Denver Area Access Users Group (YouTube channel)
  • New and Upcoming in Access (1:09:02): presented by the Microsoft Access Engineering Team
    • Joe Jimenez: New Web Browser Control
    • Sachin Arunkumar: VBA Macro Code Signing in Access
    • Courtney Owen: Improvements in exporting Access tables to Dataverse
    • Dale Rector: Q&A with the Principal Engineering Manager for MS Access
• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
  • Archive Records (25:47): Archiving Old Data in your Microsoft Access Database
  • InStr Function (12:58): Use the InStr Function to Find a String Within a String in Microsoft Access
  • Numbers As Text (15:48): When to Store Numbers in a Text Field in Microsoft Access. Val Function
  • Merge Tables (21:53): How to Merge Tables From Multiple Sources Into One Master Database in Microsoft Access
  • AppActivate (17:45): Switch Between Open Applications Using AppActivate in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Access WatchDog (2:20): Microsoft Access WatchDog Template. Reboot PC if Access Database Locks Up
  • Logon Automatically (12:58): How to Automatically Logon to Windows on System Start Without a Password (for Windows 10, 11)
  • Access Rewind (2:31): Richard's "Week-in-Review" for his own videos
• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)
  • MS Access - Improved SQL Editor (15:13)
• Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube MS Access playlist)
  • Simple Inventory Dashboard (6:44): Using Dashboards to Visualize Data
  • Simple Dynamic Forms (7:20): How to Change Controls on a Form Based on Combo Box Selection

New to Me

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

• MS Access - Improved SQL Editor, by Daniel Pineault (companion article to Daniel's video above)

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 1, 2022: Kent Gorell - Managing Selection Lists for Quick Data Entry
• 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: Karl Donaubauer - (topic to be confirmed)
• January 5, 2023: Juanjo Luna - Using REST/API calls with Access (Spanish to English translation will be provided) (JUST ADDED)
• 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
• April 5, 2023: Aleksander Wojtasz - (topic to be confirmed)
• May 3, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
• June 7, 2023: Thomas Pfoch - Maps for Microsoft Access
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)

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Access Roadmap

There were no changes to the roadmap between last week (2022-11-12) and this week (2022-11-19).  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