Week in Review: December 16, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Access Conferences in 2024, by Karl Donaubauer
  • 1st Birthday of AccessForever.org, by Karl Donaubauer

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Commencing Tomato!
  • The process of daily emails
  • TDD – 013 – Pausing to re-evaluate my goals
  • TDD – 014 – A new structure beginning to congeal
  • TDD – 015 – To Assert or Not To Assert

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Microsoft Access Compact and Repair
  • Microsoft Access Database Bloating Main Causes

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • 32 to 64-bit: My Future Plans
  • CDO EMail Tester (updated)
  • Exam Timer (updated)
  • AEU22: Streamline Import Specs with VBA Classes (updated)
  • FIXED: Error 3611 when refreshing links using code (updated)
  • 32 to 64-bit: Manage Procedures

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • 32-bit vs. 64-bit VBA: Deep Dive
  • GetCanvas(): Convenience Function for Working with Windows API Calls in Access
  • CenterForm(): Using the Windows API to Center Forms on the Access Canvas
  • GetInnerAccessHwnd(): Retrieve the Window Handle to the Microsoft Access Canvas
  • The Curious Case of the Return Type of the hWndAccessApp Method in 64-bit VBA

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • AEU 22 - Streamline Your Import/Export Spec Workflow with VBA Classes (51:32): with Mike Wolfe

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Edge Browser Control (23:35): Using the New Edge Browser Control in Microsoft Access
  • AI Took Our Jobs! (09:40): AI Took Our Jobs! Thriving in the Age of AI Disruption. Adapt with Lifelong Learning!
  • Next Leap Year (17:57): How to Calculate the Next Leap Year Following a Given Year in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Too Few Parameters (20:45): How to Fix Run-Time Error 3061 Too Few Parameters in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Recordsets (20:48): Understanding Recordsets in Microsoft Access VBA - a Beginner's Guide
  • Access Custom MsgBox Builder (05:49): Microsoft Access Custom MsgBox Builder: Easy VBA Code Generator for Advanced Message Boxes

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Microsoft Access - Database Bloating (25:37)
  • Microsoft Access - Compact and Repair (17:19)

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

  • Can AI replace Human Database Developers? (16:19): Can AI replace Human Database Developers?

Select Open Source Projects: New Releases

• msaccess-vcs-addin: v4.0.30-beta (dev branch)

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.}

• January 3, 2024: Ramachandran (A.P.R.) Pillai - Streamlining the Form Module Code in the standalone Class Module
• January 4, 2024: Kent Gorrell - The Power of Sub classes in Access VBA
• 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
• April 18-19, 2024: Access DevCon Vienna - (Online in Microsoft Teams) Agenda to be announced
• 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 (2023-12-09) and this one (2023-12-16).

The development priorities were last updated at the German-language AEK conference on October 14, 2023.

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 or Access engineering team presentations.  I'll include a link to the source of 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, Microsoft's Plans for Access in the Next 6 Months.

The items are listed in priority order according to Principal Engineering Manager Dale Rector.  The "Expected Benefit" of each feature is shown in italics after the description of the feature itself.

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) Improved product quality and reliability
2. Access becomes Large Address Aware: Removal of key customer error issue
3. Dataverse export improvements: Make it easier and faster for admins to migrate their data to Dataverse
4. Large monitor support for forms: Improved support of Access on the latest hardware
5. Modern Chart Improvements: Expanded support for the most popular chart types and options
6. SQL Editor Improvements: Significantly improved SQL query editing experience
7. Inconsistent Database Error Fix

Special thanks to Karl Donaubauer for posting the updated priorities at AccessForever.org.

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