Week in Review: July 15, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Access MVPs – The Full List, by Karl Donaubauer
  • Build Event for Edge Web Browser Control Crashes Access, by George Hepworth

• Philipp Stiefel (CodeKabinett)

  • Generating MD5 and SHA-1 Hashes in VBA Using the Windows API

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Site Restored
  • Power Apps – Sorry There’s Been a Disconnect

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Get Current Geolocation (updated)
  • Is a Report Open As a Subreport?
  • Is a Form Open As a Subform? (updated)
  • Is Location Trusted? (updated)

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

  • Update: API, Get Computer Name

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • ChatGPT: Genius or Fraud?
  • Evolution of a Function: ShowForm() Part 2
  • Evolution of a Function: ShowForm() Part 1
  • Evolution of a Function: ShowForm()
  • Countering Automation Bias

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Great Interface Design (1:32:17): with Greg Regan

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Embedded Report (19:31): How to Embed a Report Inside a Form for Improved Data Readability in Microsoft Access
  • Change Row Height (18:09): How to Let Users Change the Row Height in a Microsoft Access Continuous Form
  • Address Block (21:10): How to Make a Professional-Looking Address Block for your Microsoft Access Reports
  • Speed Up Search (14:47): Simple Trick to Apparently Speed Up Wildcard Searches in Microsoft Access
  • Different Page Headers (14:48): How to Create a Different Page Header for the First Page of a Microsoft Access Report

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Bypassing Trusted Domains (12:47): In the New Modern Web Browser Control

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

  • Domain Aggregate Queries (9:13): Using Domain Aggregate Functions to Analyze your Data
  • Subqueries (11:48): Streamlining Your Database Processes
  • Themes and Colors (8:22): Customize the look of your Database with Themes

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

  • Call Function from Event Pointer (1:11)
  • Run function if all three controls have data (0:23)
  • tblFootPrint Combo Box Matching (0:39)
  • Update Combo Row Source (1:56)

Select Open Source Projects: New Releases

• msaccess-vcs-addin: v4.0.15-beta (dev branch)

New to Me

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

• Nothing new this week.

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.}

• July 20, 2023: George Hepworth - Extending Access with a PowerApps Barcode Scanner
• August 2, 2023: Juanjo Luna - An Access Developer Guide to creating applications in Blazor
• 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: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge browser control
• 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
• November 1, 2023: John Heaser - Extending Access with SQL Server – including Geography data
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)
• January 3, 2023: Ramachandran (A.P.R.) Pillai - Streamlining the Form Module Code in the standalone Class Module

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-07-08) and this one (2023-07-15).

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.