Week in Review: February 10, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Roll-back to previous versions of Office, by Peter Doering

• Alessandro Grimaldi

  • Presenting "Access on Steroids"

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • TDD – 045 – And with several more implementation details added, the test passes!

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • VBA – Creating Windows Notification Without APIs
  • VBA – RegEx – Trimming Multiple Spaces Throughout a String
  • Using RegEx To Validate A URL
  • Using RegEx To Validate A Password

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • AEU24: Top 10 Advanced Features of MZ-Tools (updated)
  • Hide & Restore Selected Columns - Part 2
  • Add Colour to Tab Control Pages
  • Hide Selected Columns in Continuous Forms - Part 1

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Pseudocode Programming: Think First, Code Second
  • Get Max Row by Group with ChatGPT
  • Major Release of the Microsoft Access Version Control Add-in
  • Clearing the Windows 10 "White Bar of Doom"
  • Rubberducking

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • AEU24: Top 10 Advanced Features of MZ-Tools (01:20:45): with Carlos Quintero

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • Collections, Named Formulas or Tables (17:28): Should I use Collections, Named Formulas or Tables for Gallery Items? Here's My Choice, and Why
  • Loading 300,000 Records in PowerApps (15:38): Can I load 300,000 Records into a PowerApps Application? Yes! But check out what happened next!

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Easy Search Form: Part 1 (17:35): A Simple Multi-Field Search Form for Microsoft Access with Zero Programming
  • Easy Search Form: Part 2 (17:45): A Simple Multi-Field Search Form for Microsoft Access with Zero Programming, Part 2
  • F, C, or K: Part 1 (19:29): Enter Temperature Readings in Any Scale and Convert to All Three (F, C, or K) in Microsoft Access
  • F, C, or K: Part 2 (14:23): Enter Temperature Readings in Any Scale and Convert (F, C, or K) in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • F, C, or K: Part 3 (17:47): Enter Temperature Readings in Any Scale and Convert (F, C, or K) in Microsoft Access, Part 3

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • VBA - Check If A Folder Exists (17:55)

Select Open Source Projects: New Releases

• msaccess-vcs-addin: v4.0.34 Major Update

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.}

• February 13, 2024: Book Author Alessandro Grimaldi - Access on Steroids (JUST ADDED)
• 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
• March 26, 2024: Steve Schapel - Unraveling Constraints – A Case Study (JUST ADDED)
• 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 (2024-02-03) and this one (2024-02-10).

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