Week in Review: August 19, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • German Access Conference AEK25, by Karl Donaubauer

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

  • Streamlining Form Module Code - Part Ten

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Modern Web Browser Control YouTube Series
  • New Windows YouTube Playlist

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Database Analyzer Pro

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • "Old" is the New "New"
  • Checklists
  • The Missing Keyword in VBA
  • Code that Fits in Your Head
  • Working with Null in Microsoft Access

Videos‌

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Password Hash (25:01): How to Encrypt and Hash Passwords in MS Access

• Crystal Long (YouTube channel)

  • SQL Spacer (6:58): SQL Spacer VBA and Access Add-in

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Parse Lines (16:52): How to Parse Lines in a Textbox and Create Individual Records in Microsoft Access
  • Split Part Numbers (23:48): How to Split a Field into Multiple Individual Child Records in Microsoft Access
  • Count Records (15:04): How to Count the Number of Records in a Continuous Form with Criteria in Microsoft Access
  • #Deleted (15:51): Fixing the #Deleted Error in Microsoft Access
  • Is Form Loaded (16:51): How to Determine if a Form is Loaded (Open) in Microsoft Access

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Dynamic Content Generation Bug (5:52): Modern Web Browser Control
  • What Did the User Click? (17:42): Modern Web Browser Control
  • Zoom In and Out of the Webpage (5:47): Modern Web Browser Control

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

  • What is a Macro? (8:33): Microsoft Access Macros for Beginners
  • Numbered & Bulleted Lists in Reports (4:48): Creating Numbered & Bulleted List Reports in Microsoft Access
  • Report Grouping (4:39): Advanced Report Grouping Techniques: 2 Examples

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 29, 2023: Lenni Lobel - Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
• September 6, 2023: Colin Riddington - Database Analyzer and Other Tools
• September 7, 2023: John Colby - Event Driven Programming
• September 21, 2023: Armen Stein - Advanced Database Design (JUST ADDED)
• September 26, 2023: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young - Accessibility is for Everyone (SPEAKERS UPDATED)
• 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
• November 16, 2023: Alexander Denz - ChatGPT in Access (JUST ADDED)
• 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 (2023-08-12) and this one (2023-08-19).

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.