Week in Review: March 9, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Access Bugs – The Long List 2024

• Maria Barnes (Business Data Bytes Newsletter)

  • Should you move your data to the Cloud?

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Inconsistencies of the Modern Web Browser Control
  • Setting Font Color Based on The Background Color
  • Microsoft Access Navigation Pane Rendering Issues
  • Using a Combo Box to Retrieve a Record In a Microsoft Access Form

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • AEU25: Better Access Charts - The Next Generation (updated)
  • AEU26: Command Bars & the Access Shortcut Tool
  • Paint Me Transparent in a Continuous Form (updated)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Five Types of Files to Exclude From MS Access Version Control
  • Installing TortoiseHg: Step-by-Step
  • Installing the Access Version Control Add-in: Step-by-Step
  • What's the Purpose of an Access Version Control Add-in?
  • Byte-Sized Wisdom: Testing

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Better Access Charts - The Next Generation (01:11:36): with Thomas Moeller

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Who Had Item on Specific Date, Part 1 (16:36): How to Determine Who Had a Specific Item on Specific Date in Microsoft Access
  • Who Had Item on Specific Date, Part 2 (17:49): How to Determine Who Had a Specific Item on Specific Date in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Unrecognized Database Format (25:05): How to Fix the Microsoft Access "Unrecognized Database Format" Error 3343 (Inconsistent State)
  • VBA Editor Themes, Part 3 (12:54): How to Work with Multiple VBA Editor Themes for your Database in Microsoft Access, Part 3

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

  • Data Warehousing: Core Elements (12:39): Foundations of Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

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.}

• March 15, 2024: Access Day - in-person Access conference in Seattle, WA area
• March 26, 2024: Steve Schapel - Unraveling Constraints – A Case Study
• April 3, 2024: Dale Fye - Working with Command Bars and the Access Shortcut Tool
• April 04, 2024: Tom van Stiphout- Developing Solid Applications
• April 9, 2024: UK Access User Group - April 2024 Conference - in-person Access conference at Imperial College, London
• April 18-19, 2024: Access DevCon Vienna - (Online in Microsoft Teams) Agenda available here
• May 1, 2024: Colin Riddington - View & Edit Import/Export (IMEX) Data Task Specifications
• June 05, 2024: Adolph Dupré - Creating Classes from tables (TOPIC JUST ADDED)
• July 03, 2024: Olaf Nöhring - Getting Attention with style: An Improved, Enhanced Message Box
• September 04, 2024: Aleksander Wojtasz - Follow-up session on Interactive Gantt charts  (JUST ADDED)
• October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Animation with Style in Access  (JUST ADDED)
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-03-02) and this one (2024-03-09).

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