Week in Review: July 29, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

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

  • Streamlining Form Module Code - Part Eight

• Access Experts

  • Managing Microsoft Access Autonumber Fields

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Access Images Pixelated/Poor Quality

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Count Jobs in Print Queue (updated)
  • Available Connections Add-In (updated)
  • Available Connections (updated)

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

  • SQL Spacer add-in tool for Access

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Logic Puzzle Solution Part 3: Counting the Possible Configurations
  • 3 Situations for Using Named Arguments in VBA
  • Evolution of a Function: ShowForm() Part 4
  • Evolution of a Function: ShowForm() Part 3
  • Archive Collection: Field Descriptions

Videos‌

• Denver Area Access Users Group (YouTube channel)

  • Extending Access with a PowerApps Barcode Scanner (1:10:42): with George Hepworth

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Account Balances: Part 3 (20:02): Split database into front-end and back-end
  • Account Balances: Part 4 (22:49): Recalculate actual balance
  • Account Balances: Part 5 (37:34): Create an [Add Account] button
  • Account Balances: Part 6 (35:42): Safely delete accounts
  • Address Block Format (15:18): How to Add Formatting to Your Report Address Block in Microsoft Access

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

  • Use a Tab Control (5:49): How to Use Tab Control to Streamline Your Interface
  • Combo / List Box (8:27): Combo and List Boxes: Setup and Formatting in Access Databases
  • Add Items to a Combo Box (5:23): Adding Data to a Combo Box During Execution in Microsoft Access

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.}

• 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 (SESSION POSTPONED; a different session will be scheduled in its place)
• 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 (2023-07-22) and this one (2023-07-29).

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.

UPDATE [2023-07-31]: Updated status of Thomas Möller's Better Access Charts session.