Week in Review: March 23, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

Videos‌

Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)
- Highlight Entire Form (06:19): (Dim Background)
Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)
- Azure SQL Users (20:57): How to Add Users to Your Microsoft Access Azure SQL Online Database App
Alessandro Grimaldi (YouTube channel)
- Interview with Book Author Alessandro Grimaldi (57:46)
Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
- Application Part (17:27): Creating Application Parts in Microsoft Access: Step-by-Step Guide
- ACCDT Template (18:43): How to Create an ACCDT Template in Microsoft Access for Easy Database Distribution
- Microsoft Access Quick Queries #14 (22:01): Practice Makes Perfect, LibreOffice, Easy Access POS, More!
Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)
- Access is Alive and Well (8:16): Microsoft Access - Alive, Under Active Development And Not Dead
- VBA Cryptography (36:55): Hashing - Ciphering (Encrypt/Decrypt)
- Is VBA RegEx Dead? (36:53): Is RegEx Truly Dead in VBA Because VBScript is Being Deprecated?
- Continuous Form Data Entry Approaches (21:07)

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 26, 2024: Steve Schapel - Unraveling Constraints – A Case Study
April 3, 2024: Dale Fye - Working with Command Bars and the Access Shortcut Tool
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
May 2, 2024: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young- Developing Solid Applications (NEW DATE)
May 28, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access (JUST ADDED)
June 05, 2024: Adolph Dupré - Creating Classes from tables
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
October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Animation with Style in Access
November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms

Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-03-16) and this one (2024-03-23).

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.

Continued Focus on Monthly Issue Fixes: (Monthly Issue Fix Blog) Improved product quality and reliability
Access becomes Large Address Aware: Removal of key customer error issue
Dataverse export improvements: Make it easier and faster for admins to migrate their data to Dataverse
Large monitor support for forms: Improved support of Access on the latest hardware
Modern Chart Improvements: Expanded support for the most popular chart types and options
SQL Editor Improvements: Significantly improved SQL query editing experience
~~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