Week in Review

Week in Review: April 20, 2024

Highlights include the monthly bug fix post from Microsoft, a rant against typed Arrays, polymorphism in VBA, extracting OLE images, and another modern browser bug.

Mike Wolfe

Apr 20, 2024 • 4 min read

Just Published

^{This section includes videos, articles, and (occasionally) open-source project updates from the past 7 days.}

Articles

Videos‌

Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)
- Recordset Clone (18:51): How to Use RecordsetClone in Microsoft Access
Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
- Extract OLE Image: Part 1 (15:54): How to Extract an OLE Image From a Field in Microsoft Access
- Extract OLE Image: Part 2 (16:53): How to Extract an OLE Image From a Field in Microsoft Access, Part 2
- Immediate Refresh (12:36): How to Immediately Update Calculations when Any Field is Updated in Microsoft Access
- Create a Query (26:09): Creating a Query in Microsoft Access
- Export to Word: Part 2 (16:25): Export to Word, Part 2: Export Microsoft Access Reports to Word and Preserve Formatting, Lines, etc.
- Lock Subform (17:37): How to Lock the Parent Form & Subform Based on a Condition in Microsoft Access (Lock Order if Paid)
Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)
- Case of the Disappearing Objects?! (01:58): Navigation Pane Disappearing Objects Bug
- No Support of URL Parameters! (15:26): Modern Web Browser control - URL Parameter With Local Files Bug

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.}

April 30, 2024: Jim Dettman and Doug Yudovich - Learn how to chat with other Access developers on Discord
May 1, 2024: Adolph Dupré - Using VBA to create a class based on a table
May 2, 2024: Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young- Developing Solid Applications
May 28, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
June 05, 2024: Colin Riddington - View & Edit Import/Export (IMEX) Data Task Specifications
July 03, 2024: Olaf Nöhring - Getting Attention with style: An Improved, Enhanced Message Box / André Minhorst - Enhancing Access Forms (SECOND SPEAKER AND TOPIC JUST ADDED)
August 7, 2024: Peter Poppe - Working with Treeviews
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
December 04, 2024: Adrian Bell - topic to be confirmed
January 1, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed

Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-04-13) and this one (2024-04-20).

The roadmap was last updated the week of April 13, 2024. 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

None.

Rolling Out