Week in Review: June 10, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Official Access Blog

  • Access Releases 14 Issue Fixes in Version 2305 (Released June 1st, 2023), by Linda Lu Cannon

• Access Forever

  • Not Enough Memory when Opening Reports with Version 2305, by Karl Donaubauer

• a.p.r. pillai (Learn MS-Access Tips and Tricks)

  • Streamlining Form Module Code Part Four

• Juan Soto (Access Experts)

  • The State of Access in 2023

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Microsoft Access YouTube Resources
  • Access Modern Web Browser Control – Bypassing Trusted Domains
  • Access Modern Web Browser Control – Webcam
  • Access – Saving Base64 Web Images

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Securing Your Database - A Tutorial (updated)
  • AEU16: Northwind 2.0-Inventory/String Functions
  • Maximum Password Length in Access Files (updated)
  • List All Module Procedures

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

  • Document Fields to Debug Window

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Upcoming Presentation: Form Templates
  • Using Hard Links to Help Mimic a Client Network Environment
  • Resources for the Modern Edge-Based Browser Control in Microsoft Access
  • Using PowerShell to Provide TCP Port Details of Running SQL Server Instances
  • Logic Puzzle Solution Bonus: SQL Server Edition

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Maintaining Data Integrity during Migrations to SQL Server, Part II (1:37:34): by Kent Gorrell

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Quick Queries, #11 (30:36): Microsoft Access Quick Queries #11. Separate Tables for Years, Ambiguous Name Detected, More!
  • Decimal vs. Double (20:07): Decimal vs. Double Number Field Sizes in Microsoft Access and Which You Should Use Each
  • Trim (14:50): Use The Trim Function To Remove Leading And Trailing Spaces From A Text Field In Microsoft Access
  • Leading Zeros (13:12): How to Display Leading Zeros on a Number in Microsoft Access
  • The Power of Access Forms (Short)
  • Basics of Access Tables (Short)
  • 4 Basic Access Objects (Short)
  • Highlight Row (19:43): How To Highlight An Entire Row Of Fields In A Continuous Form In Microsoft Access

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Microsoft Access - Quick Tip - Highlight The Active Control (2:23)

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

  • Basics of Form Properties (13:09): Optimize your forms to create a User-Friendly experience
  • Cleaning House in Access (Short): How to remove duplicates from Your Access Table
  • DIY Ribbon & Context Menu (8:43): Creating Custom Ribbon and Context Menus with Macros in Microsoft Access
  • Solving Common Deletion Problems in Microsoft Access (Short)
  • Navigation Form (4:05): Enhance User Experience with Navigation Forms in Microsoft Access

New to Me

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

• Rubberduck Style Guide, by Mathieu Guindon

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.}

• June 15, 2023: Mike Wolfe - Form Templates in Microsoft Access (date updated)
• July 5, 2023: Aleksander Wojtasz - Interactive Gantt Chart Scheduler in Access
• July 6, 2023: Greg Regan - Great Interface Design
• 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
• October 19, 2023: Alessandro Grimaldi - "VBA Pills" - Access Tips and Tricks (date updated)
• 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 (2023-06-03) and this one (2023-06-10).

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.