Week in Review: August 24, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • SQL To/From VBA Converter, by Colin Riddington

• Maria Barnes (Business Data Bytes Newsletter)

  • Choosing the right platform for your application

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Case Sensitivity – Not everyone types English!
  • Article written with AI: Leveraging AI Chatbots to Assist in Writing VBA Code
  • Are you a good customer?
  • Access as a low cost option
  • Writing tests for legacy code – Part 5

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • How-to Download a Webpage or a File Using Curl
  • Windows Extract All… Slower Than Molasses
  • Splitting a Large CSV into Multiple Smaller CSVs

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Reserved Error - There is No Message for this Error (updated)
  • BUG: Callback function crashes Access
  • CDO EMail Tester (updated)
  • AEU32: Drag and drop: behind the scenes

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

  • Toggle Bookmark Display in Word Document
  • Query To Word Bookmark

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Throwback Thursday: August 22, 2024

Videos‌

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Kick Users (14:14): How to Kick Users Out of SQL Server Databases

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Load Multiple Images, Part 1 (18:09): How to Automatically Load Multiple Images for Customers, Products (or Anything) in Microsoft Access
  • Load Multiple Images, Part 2 (17:29): How to Automatically Load Multiple Images in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Load Multiple Images, Part 3 (18:25): How to Automatically Load Multiple Images in Microsoft Access, Part 3
  • Mid = Right (12:23): How to Use the Mid Function to Get the Right Side of a String in Microsoft Access
  • Send Email with PowerShell (21:15): How to Send Email Using PowerShell in Microsoft Access (No Mail Program Required!)

New to Me

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

• "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase, by Jimmy Miller

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 27, 2024: Maria Barnes - Working with Microsoft Graph API from VBA
• September 04, 2024: Aleksander Wojtasz - Follow-up session on Interactive Gantt charts
• September 05, 2024: Adrian Bell - Adding & Removing Items (Immediately) to/from Ribbon using VBA (re-added to calendar; new topic)
• September 24, 2024: Maria Barnes - Modern Chart Improvements
• October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Drag and Drop: behind the scenes (topic updated)
• October 3, 2024: Ron McCarry - Using cached ODBC connection in Access with single sign-on
• October 29, 2024: Maria Barnes - Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms
• November 07, 2024: Greg Regan - Modern Access Interfaces
• 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
• February 05, 2025: John Mallinson - Using VBE_Extras Add-In with Access

Access Roadmap

There were no changes made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-08-17) and this one (2024-08-24).

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)