Week in Review: May 11, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Current Feature Work: Monaco Editor + Modern Chart Improvements, by Karl Donaubauer

• Crystal Long (Access Access Newsletter)

  • Visualize Access Relationships with Words

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • TDD – 077 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing (part 4)

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Another Day, Another Deleted Feedback Portal Suggestion!
  • The Battle Over Intellectual Property And AI Heats Up Over At Stack OverFlow!
  • SHERTACK Tech Scam – A Warning For Others
  • Use The Microsoft Graph REST API To Create An Event In The User’s Calendar
  • Dangers Lurking Around The Corner
  • Windows Virus Threat Action Bug
  • Microsoft Access Roadmap Updated, Again!

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Two New Access Features - Autumn 2024
  • Forcibly Shutdown Access
  • LIVE Currency Exchange HTML Ticker

• Crystal Long (Ms Access Gurus | Access Access Newsletter)

  • SQL to list relationships + VBA

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Sneak Peek: Modern Access Charts
  • Lead Generation is a Misnomer
  • Sneak Peek: Monaco SQL Editor for MS Access
  • Creating a Header Row in Excel from an ADO Recordset

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Trouble-Shooting (01:11:52): with Tom van Stiphout and Kim Young
  • Using VBA to create a class based on a table (42:19): with Adolph Dupré

• Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)

  • BUG: Office & VBE Languages Different (05:54)

• Karl Donaubauer (YouTube channel)

  • Breaking Access News - Modern Chart Improvements (11:49)
  • Breaking Access News - Monaco Editor (05:40)

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • Import HTML into Tables (03:25): Import HTML Files into Access Tables and Correct Data Type of Fields

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Object Dependencies (18:26): Using Object Dependencies in Microsoft Access to Safely Delete Queries
  • Open Report 2 Ways (17:14): How to Open the Same Report With Criteria from a Form Field or a Prompt in Microsoft Access
  • Blackout Times (22:41): How to Set Blackout Times for your Microsoft Access Database to Prevent User Logons
  • Billing Statements, Part 1 (17:15): How to Create Billing Statements for Unpaid Customer Invoices in Microsoft Access
  • Billing Statements, Part 2 (14:31): How to Create Billing Statements for Unpaid Customer Invoices in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Billing Statements, Part 3 (23:19): How to Create Billing Statements for Unpaid Customer Invoices in Microsoft Access, Part 3

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Microsoft Access - Microsoft Graph REST API - Creating Calendar Events via Outlook (39:36)
  • Microsoft Excel - Quick Tip - Parsing Data Without Formulas! (05:30)

New to Me

^{This section includes content I discovered this week that has been around for awhile.}

• Making Large Language Models work for you, by Simon Willison

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 21, 2024: Juan Soto- Selling Access with SQL Server Jobs  (JUST ADDED)
• 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 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

The following changes were made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-05-04) and this one (2024-05-11):

Removed from "Launched"

• APR 2023: Modern Web Browser Control
• MAR 2023: New Modern Web Browser Form Control

The roadmap was last updated the week of May 11, 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

• NOV 2023: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)