Week in Review: June 3, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Philipp Stiefel (CodeKabinett)

  • Outlook Automation – Showing the Outlook Main Window

• Crystal Long (Access Access Newsletter)

  • Access Command Button Color Properties, built-in Color-Picker

• Tony Hine (aka, Uncle Gizmo) (Nifty Access)

  • KeyGen - License Key Validation

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Access Modern Web Browser Control – Authorizing Access To Devices
  • Access Modern Web Browser Control – Splitting PDFs
  • Access Modern Web Browser Control – Merging PDFs

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Get Current Geolocation

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

  • Access Command Button Color Properties, built-in Color-Picker

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • ShiftDate() Function: Intelligent Date Adjustments
  • ptReplaceDeclaredValues(): A VBA Function to Update SQL in Pass-Through Queries
  • Quick Tip: Preventing Accidental Double-Clicks
  • Logic Puzzle Solution Part 2: Testing the neighborhood Class Module
  • Logic Puzzle Solution Part 1: The oNeighborhood Class Module

Videos‌

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Table Analyzer (2:18): Isladogs Access Table Analyzer & Viewer Review
  • Missing Values (15:32): Missing Values Cause Calculations to Result in Empty Fields in Microsoft Access
  • Format Currency (16:50): Format Number and Currency Values with a Thousands Separator and Colors in Microsoft Access
  • Building a Calculator in Microsoft Access - Part 7 (23:42)
  • DoEvents (17:51): Use the DoEvents Command to Yield Execution to Other Processes During Loops in Microsoft Access

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • New Browser Control (42:51): Microsoft Access - New Modern Edge Web Browser Control

• Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube MS Access playlist)

  • Basic Form Controls (15:34): Master Basic Form Controls in Microsoft Access: A Step-by-step Guide
  • Crosstab Queries (Short): Combining Crosstab Queries in Microsoft Access
  • Basic Forms (5:36): Build Simple Forms in Minutes with Microsoft Access
  • Totals Queries (Short): *From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering the Totals Query in Access *
  • Cartesian Products (7:16): Practical Applications of Cartesian Products in Database Management

• Nifty Access [Tony Hine, aka Uncle Gizmo] (YouTube channel)

  • KeyGen in Microsoft Access (2:40)
    • [Editor's Note]: Uncle Gizmo uses ChatGPT to convert sample C# code to VBA

New to Me

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

• Will Programmers Really Be Replaced by AI? by @vinib (Vini Brasil)

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.}

• May 30, 2023: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young - Northwind 2.0
• June 1, 2023: Tom Wickerath and Kent Gorrell - Maintaining Data Integrity during Migrations
• June 7, 2023: Tom van Stiphout/Kim Young- Introducing Northwind 2.0
• June 15, 2023: Alessandro Grimaldi - "VBA Pills" - Access Tips and Tricks
• July 5, 2023: Aleksander Wojtasz - Interactive Gantt Chart Scheduler in Access
• July 6, 2023: Greg Regan - Great Interface Design
• July 20, 2023: Mike Wolfe - Form Templates in Microsoft Access
• August 2, 2023: Thomas Möller - (topic details to follow)
• August 3, 2023: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young - Global Error Handlers
• August 17, 2023: Richard Rost - Custom Data Entry Filter Functions in Access
• August 29, 2023: Lenni Lobel - Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
• September 6, 2023: Juanjo Luna - Blazor: making a webApp
• September 7, 2023: John Colby - Event Driven Programming
• October 4, 2023: Juan Soto - The Future of Access
• November 1, 2023: John Heaser - Extending Access with SQL Server – including Geography data
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-05-27) and this one (2023-06-03).

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

• APR 2023: Modern Web Browser Control
• MAR 2023: New Modern Web Browser Form Control

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

None.