Week in Review: September 7, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Official Access Blog

  • Join the Access developer research panel, by Linda Lu Cannon

• Access Forever

  • Error 3048 and Hanging Access Task in Version 2408, by AFo Team

• Philipp Stiefel (CodeKabinett)

  • How to Generate a PDF/A Compliant PDF in Microsoft Access

• Ben Clothier (Access Experts)

  • BUG ALERT: Access not closing on exit in build 2408

• Crystal Long (Access Access Newsletter)

  • Write Access Query to Word Bookmark

• Mathieu Guindon (Rubberduck VBA)

  • State as a Service

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Access Object Names With Spaces and NiceDLookup
  • Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 3)
  • Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 2)
  • Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 1)
  • What Would File Hashing Be Used For?
  • Hashing An Array of Files

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Have Your Say and Shape The Future of Access
  • CreateObject(“Outlook.Application”) Generating An ActiveX component can’t create object Error
  • Microsoft Access Roadmap – September 2024 Review
  • Another msaccess.exe Process Not Closing Properly Bug

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • BUG: Version 2408 and Hanging Access Tasks
  • Modern Chart Improvements (updated)
  • Centre Form On Screen (updated)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Dark Mode All the Things
  • Throwback Thursday: September 5, 2024
  • I Paid $600,000 per Hour for LASIK Eye Surgery
  • Bug Alert: Version 2408 Causes msaccess.exe to Hang on Exit

Videos‌

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Web Front-End (24:34): How to Use Streamlit with Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Restart Access: Part 1 (20:21): How to Restart Your Microsoft Access Database at Regular Intervals Hourly, Daily, etc.
  • Restart Access: Part 2 (16:58): How to Restart Your Microsoft Access Database at Regular Intervals Hourly, Daily, etc., Part 2
  • Are There Records? (16:53): A Function to Determine if There are Records in a Table Before Doing Stuff in Microsoft Access
  • Filter by DOB: Part 1 (19:53): Filtering Long Customer Lists by Date of Birth in Forms and Combo Boxes in Microsoft Access
  • Filter by DOB: Part 2 (15:48): Filtering Long Customer Lists by Date of Birth in Forms and Combo Boxes in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Memberships (21:34): Access Learning Zone Memberships Explained: TechHelp, Learning Connection, MYOLP

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Developer Research Panel (04:28)
  • Roadmap Review - September 2024 (13:45)
  • msaccess.exe process hangs (07:26)

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.}

• September 10, 2024: Juan Soto - When should you use SQL Server with Microsoft Access?
• September 24, 2024: Maria Barnes - Modern Chart Improvements
• October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Drag and Drop: behind the scenes
• 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
• December 05, 2024: Crystal Long and Geoff Griffith- Creating Add-ins that run in Access and Office (JUST ADDED)
• 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 (2024-08-31) and this one (2024-09-07).

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)