Week in Review: June 29, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Windows Generic/Text Only Printer Driver Fails for Access Reports, by George Hepworth

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

  • Wrapper Class Template Wizard V2

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • TDD – 078 – Updating Form Auditor class requirements

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Web Browser Control – Restricted This File From Showing Active Content
  • Form and VBA Based Slider Control – Modernizing the Interface
  • Launching Internet Explorer for Testing Purposes
  • Modernizing the Interface – Sliders

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Kiosk Example Form
  • SQL to VBA & Back Again (updated)
  • CDO EMail Tester (updated)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Bug Fix: Access Version 2406 Fixes the Slow Forms and Crashing Bug From 2405
  • Throwback Thursday: June 27, 2024
  • Generic Text Only Printer Driver Bug
  • How to Get the String Values of an Enum in VBA

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Data Analysis Tips and Techniques (57:22): with Luke Chung

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Summary Queries (20:04): How to Make Summary Queries in Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • ByRef Argument Type Mismatch (18:28): Resolving a ByRef Argument Type Mismatch Error in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Abort Loop (19:59): Add an Abort Checkbox to Gracefully Exit a Loop in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Speed Up Loops (19:46): How to Speed Up Your Loops in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Rollback (14:43): How to Roll Back Microsoft Access to a Previous Version in Case of Bugs, Crashes, Problems
  • Shipping Label, Part 2 (25:02): Print a Shipping Label for a Customer with a Separate Ship To Address in Microsoft Access, Part 2

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • How To Open Internet Explorer (15:13)

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.}

• 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 1, 2024: Kevin Bell - DBeaver — A better, free cross-platform database tool
• 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
• October 3, 2024: Ron McCarry - Using cached ODBC connection in Access with single sign-on
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms
• November 26, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
• December 04, 2024: Adrian Bell - topic to be confirmed
• January 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed

Access Roadmap

There were no changes made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-06-22) and this one (2024-06-29).

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)