Week in Review: July 20, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Access+Outlook Freeze when trying to send a PDF by E-mail, by Karl Donaubauer
  • Microsoft Access MVPs – The Full List 2024-2025, by Karl Donaubauer

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • User experience and checkbox labels
  • Calculating Weeks and Periods in VBA
  • Deftype statements in VBA – What?

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • CrowdStrike Crashing Windows PCs
  • The Grass Isn’t Any Greener, Microsoft Outages Felt Worldwide
  • New Outlook Hit My First Client Hard
  • Find Most Recent Similarly Named File From A Folder

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • SQL to/from VBA Converter Add-In

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • clsLog: A VBA Logging Framework
  • Throwback Thursday: July 18, 2024
  • 3 Methods of Logging in VBA
  • Bug Fix: Generic / Text Only Printer Driver Memory Error

Videos‌

• Crystal Long (YouTube channel)

  • How Bubble Sort Works (05:50)

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Students & Parents, Part 4 (17:34): How to Properly Relate Students & Parents in a Microsoft Access Database, Part 4
  • Students & Parents, Part 5 (13:59): How to Properly Relate Students & Parents in a Microsoft Access Database, Part 5
  • Students & Parents, Part 6 (19:21): How to Properly Relate Students & Parents in a Microsoft Access Database, Part 6
  • Students & Parents, Part 7 (22:15): How to Properly Relate Students & Parents in a Microsoft Access Database, Part 7
  • Students & Parents, Part 8 (19:42): How to Properly Relate Students & Parents in a Microsoft Access Database, Part 8
  • Inclusivity Matters (03:16): Addressing Feedback on Inclusive Gender Options in Microsoft Access

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.}

• 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 (2024-07-06) and this one (2024-07-13).

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)