Week in Review: July 22, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • The first AI Add-In for Access, by Karl Donaubauer

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

  • Streamlining Form Module Code - Part Seven

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Table Analyzer & Viewer Pro (updated)
  • Count Jobs in Print Queue
  • AEU17: Interactive Gantt Chart Scheduler (updated)
  • Create ACCDB & ACCDE Files Using Code (updated)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Coming Soon: Access Developer Survey
  • How to Efficiently Check for Empty Strings in VBA
  • TCP Port Test Fails When SQL Server Service Is Stopped
  • Why Creating Multiple Copies of a Form Is Bad Practice
  • CascadeForm(): Prevent Multi-Instance Forms From Hiding Behind Each Other

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Interactive Gantt Chart Scheduler in Access (1:04:11): with Aleksander Wojtasz

• Crystal Long (YouTube channel)

  • HowTo Draw Birthday Balloons in Access (21:27)

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Account Balances, Part 1 (36:40): How to Track Your Account Balances & Daily Transactions in Microsoft Access, Part 1
  • Account Balances, Part 2 (36:49): How to Track Your Account Balances & Daily Transactions in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Tab in Text Box (19:08): Add Tab Spacing Functionality to Text Boxes in Microsoft Access

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Performing a Microsoft Office Repair (4:47)
  • Stopping Popup Windows (4:36): in the Modern Web Browser Control
  • Speeding Up Loading Local Files (7:35): in the Modern Web Browser Control
  • Trusted Domains (22:59): in the Modern Web Browser Control

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

  • Subforms (11:37): Use Subforms to show Order Details in Microsoft Access
  • Calculated Fields (4:37): Calculated Fields in a form help display information quickly and easily
  • Default Control Properties (5:16): Efficient Form and Report Building: Using Default Properties

New to Me

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

• Using a Subquery in a SELECT statement, by Greg Larsen

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.}

• 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 (2023-07-15) and this one (2023-07-22).

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.