Week in Review: May 4, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Hanging instance of Access after closing a database, by Karl Donaubauer
  • 2 Videos from Access DevCon 2024, by Karl Donaubauer

• a.p.r. pillai (Learn MS-Access Tips and Tricks)

  • Table Query Records in Collection Object

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • TDD – 076 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing (part 3)
  • TDD – 075 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing (part 2)
  • TDD – 074 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Thank You The Smiley Coder!
  • How-to Change a Table Field’s Data Type
  • Computer Backup Strategies, Sleep Easy At Night!
  • How-to Send E-mails Via Gmail Using The Google API
  • How-to Send E-mails Via Outlook Using The Microsoft Graph API
  • Microsoft Access Roadmap Updated!

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Outlook: Check your Connection
  • AEU28: IMEX Data Tasks/Extended File Properties
  • Lock Down Database Objects

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • How to Use the ADO NextRecordset Method
  • Premature Declaration Redux
  • Quick Tip: Instant Find in the VBA IDE
  • DevCon Vienna 2024 Public Session Recordings
  • [THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]: Beginning this past week, I have stopped publishing articles on Sundays. My weekly twinBASIC Update article has moved to Mondays, which means I now publish four new Access articles per week instead of five.

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Unravelling Constraints, A Case Study developing with Access (01:04:10): by Steve Schapel + Jack Drawbridge

• Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)

  • Lock Down Database Objects (08:21)

• Philipp Stiefel (YouTube channel)

  • Activate a Ribbon Tab (25:07): How to Activate a Tab in the Microsoft Office Ribbon with VBA

• Karl Donaubauer (YouTube channel)

  • Access DevCon 2024 - You Can REALLY Do All That With Forms? (50:49): by Colin Riddington
  • Access DevCon 2024 - twinBASIC (46:31): by Mike Wolfe

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Billing Statements (17:15): How to Create Billing Statements for Unpaid Customer Invoices in Microsoft Access
  • Zip & Unzip Files, Part 1 (16:16): How to Zip and Unzip Files and Folders Using Microsoft Access VBA
  • Zip & Unzip Files, Part 2 (17:17): How to Zip and Unzip Files and Folders Using Microsoft Access VBA, Part 2
  • A-Z Jump Buttons (18:22): How to Create Buttons to Jump to Different Records in Microsoft Access
  • Multiple Addresses, Part 5 (28:51): How to Store Multiple Addresses for a Customer in Microsoft Access, Part 5

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Including Line Numbers In Your VBA Error Handler (10:28)
  • Send Emails via Outlook.com Using Microsoft's Graph REST API (30:51)
  • Microsoft Access - Roadmap Review - May 2024 (05:16)
  • Sending Emails Via Gmail Using Google's REST API (41:30)

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.}

• May 28, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
• June 05, 2024: Colin Riddington - View & Edit Import/Export (IMEX) Data Task Specifications
• June 06, 2024: Ben Sacherich - Trouble-Shooting Access Applications  
• July 03, 2024: Olaf Nöhring - Getting Attention with style: An Improved, Enhanced Message Box / André Minhorst - Enhancing Access Forms
• July 04, 2024: John Colby - What is a Framework and Why Would Access Developers Use One?  
• August 01, 2024: Presenters TBD - What Do You Do When Access No Longer Meets Your Requirements (TOPIC CANCELED FOR NOW)  
• August 7, 2024: Peter Poppe - Working with Treeviews
• August 27, 2024: Maria Barnes - Working with Microsoft Graph API from VBA
• 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 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed

Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-04-27) and this one (2024-05-04).

The roadmap was last updated the week of April 27, 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.

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

• AUG 2024: Modern Chart Improvements
• SEP 2024: Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

• APR 2023: Modern Web Browser Control
• MAR 2023: New Modern Web Browser Form Control
• NOV 2023: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)