Week in Review: September 2, 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 Eleven

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Modern Web Browser control – Display Problems
  • Access AEK25 (2023)
  • Modern Web Browser control – No Mixed Content Sources

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Database Analyzer Pro (updated)
  • The Strange Dotted Square 'Bug' FIXED (updated)
  • AEU19: Database Analyzer and Other Tools (updated)
  • AEU21: Use SQL Geography data in Access
  • AEU20: The Future of Access

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

  • Word Selection Summary

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Pause Code Until a Form is Closed or Hidden (without acDialog)
  • Using the NotInList Event in Microsoft Access to Dynamically Update Combo Boxes
  • How to Pause Code Execution Until a Form or Report is Closed (Without Using acDialog)
  • Working with Empty in VBA
  • How to Be Signed In To Multiple Organizations in the MS Teams Desktop App Simultaneously

Videos‌

• Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)

  • Access Database Analyzer Pro - 1 (4:31): Analysis Reports
  • Access Database Analyzer Pro - 2 (5:54): View Analysis Results
  • Access Database Analyzer Pro - 3 (25:28): Options & Analysis
  • Access Database Analyzer Pro - 4 (8:01): Introduction

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Eval (24:57): How to Use the Eval Function in Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • AutoSave (15:01): AutoSave Form Data at Timed Intervals in Microsoft Access
  • File In Use (21:18): How to Fix "File Already in Use" and "Already Opened" Errors When Compacting in Microsoft Access
  • MCA Loan Calculator (33:55): How to Calculate a Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) Loan Repayment in Microsoft Access
  • On Paint (21:43): How to Use the On Paint Event in Microsoft Access Forms to Supplement Conditional Formatting

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Mixed Content Source BUG! (8:04): New Modern Web Browser Control

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

  • Convert Macro to VBA (5:10): Converting a Macro into VBA Code for Better Efficiency
  • Data Macros (10:16): Data Macros and the Events that Drive Them
  • Embedded Macros (8:26): The Benefits of Embedded Macros in Access

• Edcelle John Gulfan (YouTube channel)

  • Prevent Opening a Report Without Records (4:32)

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.}

• September 6, 2023: Colin Riddington - Database Analyzer and Other Tools
• September 7, 2023: John Colby - Event Driven Programming
• September 12, 2023: Roy Kim - Fundamentals of Azure OpenAI
• September 21, 2023: Armen Stein - Advanced Database Design
• September 26, 2023: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young - Accessibility is for Everyone
• October 4, 2023: Juan Soto - The Future of Access
• October 5, 2023: Pat Hartman - Updateable Bound Forms with Denormalized Data
• 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 2, 2023: You? - Your Presentation Can Be Here! Contact George Hepworth
• November 16, 2023: Alexander Denz - ChatGPT in Access
• 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
• February 7, 2023: Carlos Quintero - Features of MZ-Tools to make you more productive with VBA (JUST ADDED)
• Date To Be Determined: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge browser control (session postponed from its original September 6, 2023, time slot)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-08-26) and this one (2023-09-02).

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.