Week in Review: January 27, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • List of fixes in 2024, by Karl Donaubauer

• Juan Soto (Access Experts)

  • Add custom VBA code routines to your Access application’s “IntelliSense” feature.

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • TDD – 040 – Putting some thought into the next test
  • TDD – 039 – Kent Beck’s Canon TDD
  • TDD – 038 – Hi, My name is Jon and I’m a “splitter”
  • TDD – 037 – Still refactoring, am I gonna drop yet?
  • TDD – 036 – Refactor til you drop

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Microsoft Access Modern Web Browser Control Bug
  • Where Art Thou Outlook Template Directory?
  • Windows 10 – No, Don’t Remove My Printer?

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Highlight Control/Column in Continuous Forms
  • Copy Meetings & Appointments in Outlook
  • Highlight Filtered Columns in Continuous Forms
  • Restore Missing Status Bar

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Set the Access Application Title Bar to the Full Path of the File at Startup
  • Using AI to Explain Unfamiliar Command Lines from the Internet
  • Roll Back to Previous Version of Office When on Microsoft 365 Current Channel (Preview)
  • Git vs. Mercurial in 2024
  • QuickTip: Navigation Captions

Videos‌

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • Reusable PowerApps Code (17:24): Maybe Not Your Typical VBA Function, but It Works!

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Debunking Myths About Access Limitations" (06:21): Debunking Myths: "5 limitations of Microsoft Access" by Pankaj Taneja of HyperOffice.com
  • Open Table to a Specific Record (10:31): How to Open a Table to a Specific Record in Microsoft Access
  • Initial Sort Order (15:51): Setting an Initial Sort Order for Records in a Table in Microsoft Access
  • List Box Move Item Part 2 (13:46): How to Move Items Up and Down in a List Box in Microsoft Access. Part 2: Bound List Box
  • List Box Move Item Part 3 (15:20): How to Move Items Up and Down in a List Box in Microsoft Access. Part 3: Bound List Box (cont.)

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Microsoft Access - Modern Web Browser control - Dynamic Content - BUG 2 (05:52)
  • Microsoft Access - Auto Resizing SubForms (18:01)

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

  • Star Schema (09:19): Build the Data Warehouse Most Popular Schema!

• Edcelle John Gulfan (YouTube channel)

  • Reports that look like Excel (04:10): What is the purpose of PADDING 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.}

• January 30, 2024: Maria Barnes - 2024 Plans for Access
• February 1, 2024: John Colby - What is a Framework and Why Would Access Developers Use One?
• 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
• March 7, 2024: Linda Ewen - Sharing Data with Users Outside Your Local Network
• March 15, 2024: Access Day - one-day in-person Access Conference in Seattle, WA area
• 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 (2024-01-20) and this one (2024-01-27).

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