Week in Review: September 30, 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 14

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • OLE Object Data Type – Just Don’t Ever Do It!
  • Access FormatConditions Object For Each Iteration Is Incorrect
  • MAJOR Changes Coming To Microsoft Outlook

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Access News & Events
  • Useful Links
  • In Praise Of SysCmd(555)
  • Undocumented SysCmd Actions

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Convenience Function for Passing Values Between Forms via a Hidden Global Form
  • Build Better Prompts with AI
  • The Complicator's Gloves: A Cautionary Tale for Software Developers
  • High-Performance VBA String Concatenation with clsStringBuilder
  • Make Your Access App More Resilient with Version Control

Videos‌

• Denver Area Access Users Group (YouTube channel)

  • Advanced Database Design (01:28:19): with Armen Stein

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • App Domain Intelligence (10:40): Application Domain Intelligence through Dynamic Programming and Knowledge Harvesting

• Alessandro Grimaldi (YouTube channel)

  • Tips and tricks (34:42): As Presented at Access DevCon 2022

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Arrays (14:56): Mastering Static Arrays in Microsoft Access VBA with a Dice Roll Simulator
  • For Each Loops (15:09): For Each Next Loops in Microsoft Access VBA. Loop Thru Controls on a Form.
  • Nested Loops (28:32): Nested Loops in Microsoft Access VBA: Build Multiplication Tables & Simulate D & D Dice Rolls
  • Random (17:56): How to Generate Random Numbers in Microsoft Access VBA. Rolling Dice!
  • Do Until Loop (14:41): Do Until Loops in Microsoft Access VBA

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Microsoft Access - Table Fields or Columns (07:21)

• Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube channel)

  • Debugging Tools for VBA (10:03): Debugging Tools for VBA in Microsoft Access: A Comprehensive Guide
  • VBA Coding Best Practices (06:29): Efficient VBA Coding Habits for Fewer Errors
  • Trigger VBA with Events (09:52): Understanding the Access Event Model 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.}

• 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: John Colby - Event Driven Programming: Part II (Part I recording)
• November 16, 2023: Alexander Denz - ChatGPT in Access
• November 22-23, 2023: (IN-PERSON!) UK Access User Group Conference (at the offices of Gordon Associates in Cheltenham) (JUST ADDED)
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - Streamline Your Import/Export Spec Workflow with VBA Classes
• January 3, 2024: Ramachandran (A.P.R.) Pillai - Streamlining the Form Module Code in the standalone Class Module
• February 7, 2024: Carlos Quintero - Features of MZ-Tools to make you more productive with VBA
• March 6, 2024: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge Browser Control
• April 3, 2024: Dale Fye - Working with Command Bars and the Access Shortcut Tool
• May 1, 2024: Colin Riddington - View & Edit Import/Export (IMEX) Data Task Specifications

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-09-23) and this one (2023-09-30).

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

• NOV 2023: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

• APR 2023: Modern Web Browser Control
• MAR 2023: New Modern Web Browser Form Control