Week in Review: October 14, 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 Custom Made Form Wizard VBA - 15

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Shape The Future Of MS365
  • The Future Of Microsoft Access
  • New Access Product Manager
  • Microsoft, You Have To Do Better!

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Two Font Display Bugs in Version 2309 (updated)
  • AEU20: The Future of Access (updated)

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

  • List Objects, Loop Access Files

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • How Many Forms and Reports Should Go in the Back-End Database File?
  • Access 101: Front-End vs. Back-End
  • Access 101: What is a Query in Access?
  • Access 101: What is a Table in Access?
  • Working on Someone Else's Code Base: Why Applications are Easier to Write Than Maintain

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • The Future of Access (01:07:25): with Juan Soto

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Catalog, Part 1 (09:06): Why I Helped Create their Application

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • ADI Part 2: How to Build Conditions in Microsoft Access (21:16): ADI Part 2: How to Build Conditions in Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Decision Tree Part 1: Introduction (17:27): Building a Decision Tree Database in Microsoft Access. Part 1: Introduction
  • Decision Tree Part 2: Tables (23:49): Building a Decision Tree Database in Microsoft Access. Part 2: Tables
  • Escape Double Quotes (16:59): How to Escape Double Quotes for SQL Insert in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Bubble Sort (27:02): How to Sort an Array with a Bubble Sort in Microsoft Access VBA
  • On Filter (29:42): A Better Solution Than the On Filter Event in Microsoft Access Forms
  • Shared Library (22:58): How to Create a Library File Containing Shared Subs and Functions in Microsoft Access

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Is This The End of VBA? (08:48): Is This The End of VBA?

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

  • Build a Main Menu (10:05): How to use the Switchboard tool vs Building a Custom Main Menu in Microsoft Access
  • Select Data With a Combo Box (08:53): Making a Combo Box Filter for your Forms
  • Access Data in VBA (13:16): Understanding the DAO Object Library in VBA Code

• Edcelle John Gulfan (YouTube channel)

  • DRAG & DROP (09:00): DRAG & DROP Tutorial in Ms 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 19, 2023: Alessandro Grimaldi - "VBA Pills" - Access Tips and Tricks
• October 31, 2023: Crystal Long - Two free tools: List Objects from your Access Databases and Code Documenter
• 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)
• 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 (2023-10-07) and this one (2023-10-14).

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