Week in Review: September 28, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Modern Chart Improvements, by Colin Riddington

• John Mallinson (The VBA Help)

  • Comparing VBE_Extras with MZ-Tools
  • VBE_Extras: Command Search and Find Setting

• Jonathan Halder | Steven Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • vbWatchdog Call Stack strategy
  • Traversing the call stack with vbWatchdog
  • Copying Access Tables / Data using VBA Real World Case – Part 2
  • Copying Access Tables / Data using VBA Real World Case – Part 1
  • Access VBA Sometimes Fails Silently

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Access News and Events (UPDATED)
  • NEW - Modern Chart Improvements (UPDATED)

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

  • Steps to Play YouTube Channel Videos

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Throwback Thursday: September 26, 2024

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Control Tip Text in Access forms (41:01): with Greg Regan
  • Access Beginners Starts October 15th, 2024 (00:48): with Juan Soto
  • Three new chapters starting in 2024! (01:07): with Juan Soto

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Web Edits (30:45): How to Update MS Access Data in a Web App

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Company or Person, Part 1 (14:09): Conditional Display of Company or Person Name in Microsoft Access
  • Company or Person, Part 2 (18:08): Conditional Display of Company or Person Name in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Quick Queries #20 (26:40): Microsoft Access Quick Queries #20: Avoiding Lookup Fields, Dlookup, and Database Maintenance Tips
  • Students & Grades, Part 1 (19:12): Student Grades in Microsoft Access: Proper Data Entry, Spreadsheet-Like View (Crosstab Query)
  • Students & Grades, Part 2 (18:28): Student Grades in Microsoft Access: Proper Data Entry, Spreadsheet-Like View, Part 2
  • Students & Grades, Part 3 (19:47): Student Grades in Microsoft Access: Proper Data Entry, Spreadsheet-Like View, Part 3

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Drag and Drop (31:01): Adding Drag and Drop Functionality to your Microsoft Access Database

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.}

• 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 15, 2024; Juan Soto? - Access Beginner's Inaugural Meeting - (NOTE: Meeting is scheduled to start at 6 PM, but no time zone is specified; I assume it is US Central Time as Juan is based in Chicago)
• October 18, 2024: Crystal Long - Under the Hood of Access Database Relationships (JUST ADDED)
• October 29, 2024: Maria Barnes - Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - An Image / Photo Cataloguer for Access
• November 07, 2024: Greg Regan - Modern Access Interfaces
• November 20 (9:30 am - 4:00 pm): In-person UK AUG Autumn 2024 Conference, Oxford University (Steve Girling, Anders Ebro, Mike Wolfe, Peter Bryant)
• 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
• January 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed
• February 05, 2025: John Mallinson - Using VBE_Extras Add-In with Access
• May 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm: In-person UKAUG 30th Anniversary Conference 2025, Imperial College London (Armen Stein, other speakers TBA) (NEW URL)

Access Roadmap

There were no changes made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-09-21) and this one (2024-09-28).

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)