Week in Review: November 9, 2024

Highlights include updated development priorities from the Access team, adding a row number to queries, and a treasure trove of VBA content at Awesome VBA.

Week in Review: November 9, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

Videos‌


New to Me

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


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.


Access Roadmap

No changes were made to the roadmap between the Week in Review last week (2024-11-02) and this week (2024-11-09). However, the Development Priorities did get updated this week. See details below.

The roadmap was last updated on October 4, 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 Oct '24 – March '25.

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.

  1. Continued Focus on Monthly Issue Fixes: (Monthly Issue Fix Blog) Improved product quality and reliability
  2. Large monitor support for forms: Improved support of Access on the latest hardware
  3. Integrated source control: Simplifying the process of building mission critical Access solutions

Special thanks to Karl Donaubauer for posting the updated priorities at AccessForever.org.

In Development

  • SEP 2024: Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

All original code samples by Mike Wolfe are licensed under CC BY 4.0