Week in Review: August 5, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Official Access Blog

  • Access Releases 7 Issue Fixes in Version 2307 (Released July 27th, 2023)

• Crystal Long (Access Access Newsletter)

  • Visualize with SQL Spacer

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Using Combo Charts in Access
  • AEU18: Create Applications in Blazor
  • Change Query Views Using Command Bars Code

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Microsoft Access vs. SQLite: Security Comparison
  • Three Factors that Lead to Complex Code
  • Complex vs. Complicated
  • What are Pure Functions?
  • "I'm Not Touching That!"

Videos‌

• Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)

  • Change Query Views Using Command Bars Code (3:07)

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel) (ADDED THIS WEEK, thanks Daniel Pineault!)

  • Bar Code Scanning (14:43): Northwind Stock Take Scan without a Key Pad

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel) (ADDED THIS WEEK, thanks Opmore!)

  • Switch DB (13:29): How to Switch from One MS Access Database to Another

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Account Balances Part 7 (30:15): Colors and conditional formatting
  • Account Balances Part 8 (38:36): Transaction table and related query/form
  • Account Balances Part 9 (23:48): Auto-select all text when entering a text box
  • Filter Combo As You Type (22:53): How to Filter the Data in a Combo Box or List Box as you Type

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Worthwhile YouTube Channels (5:29)
  • Using Combo or List Boxes to Retrieve Records (19:14)
  • Working With TempVars in Macros (13:33)
  • Working With TempVars in VBA (22:12)

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

  • Report Wizard (7:10): Creating Reports using the Report Wizard in Microsoft Access
  • Dialog Forms (10:23): Building Dialog Boxes 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 17, 2023: Richard Rost - Custom Data Entry Filter Functions in Access
• August 29, 2023: Lenni Lobel - Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
• September 6, 2023: Colin Riddington - Database Analyzer and Other Tools (JUST ADDED)
• 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
• Date To Be Determined: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge browser control (session postponed from its original Sempter 6, 2023, time slot)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-07-29) and this one (2023-08-05).

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.