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

• Official Access Blog

  • Try the new modern SQL editor in Access!
  • Access fixes released in Version 2410

• Access Forever

  • Microsoft's Plans for Access Oct '24 – March '25, by Karl Donaubauer

• John Mallinson (The VBA Help)

  • Commenting / uncommenting VBA code
  • Get a list of the keyboard shortcuts assigned to VBA macros in Excel
  • Call Hierarchy for a VBA procedure

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • CanGrow Property in Access
  • Access custom event registration
  • Access form starting on a blank record causes problems
  • When TDD doesn’t work

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Microsoft Outlook Alternatives
  • Microsoft Access’ New Monaco SQL Editor Is Out In The Wild
  • Bye Bye Access TechCommunity Forum?
  • Microsoft Access Roadmap – November 2024 Review

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Throwback Thursday: November 7, 2024

Videos‌

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Query Row Number (11:12): How to Add a Row Number to your Query in Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Quick Queries #21 (29:40): Microsoft Access Quick Queries #21: SetFocus, Column Heads, Linux, Invert Boolean, and more!
  • ANSI 89 vs. ANSI 92 (13:41): Microsoft Access ANSI 89 vs. ANSI 92 - Wildcard Differences, Compatibility, and Settings
  • Highlight Birth Month (14:48): How to Change the Color of a Text Box if it's Currently a Person's Birth Month in Microsoft Access
  • Imported Field Names (15:15): Watch Out for Bad Excel Field Names When Importing Data into Microsoft Access
  • Employee Training, Part 6 (26:09): Tracking Employee Training and/or Certifications in Microsoft Access, Part 6

New to Me

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

• Awesome VBA (Thanks for the tip, Xevi!)

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.}

• November 12, 2024: Steve Owen- Auto closing Access based on a schedule (JUST ADDED)
• 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: Juan Soto- How to add tables to your Access database, pitfalls to avoid and tips for optimization (JUST ADDED)
• November 26, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
• December 04, 2024: Adrian Bell - Custom Ribbons Using Command Bars
• December 05, 2024: Crystal Long and Geoff Griffith- Creating Add-ins that run in Access and Office
• December 10, 2024: Roy Kim - Data Ingesting Pipeline from Azure IOT Hub to Azure SQL DB (JUST ADDED)
• January 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed
• February 05, 2025: John Mallinson - Using VBE_Extras Add-In with Access
• March 05, 2025; Alexander Denz - Topic title to be confirmed
• April 02, 2025: John Heaser - Source Control for Access & SQL Databases
• May 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm: In-person UKAUG 30th Anniversary Conference 2025, Imperial College London (Armen Stein, other speakers TBA)

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

• AUG 2024: Modern Chart Improvements
• NOV 2023: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)