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Be careful! Don’t fall down the rabbit hole.
Today's adventure in Access involved discovering I'd been working on behavior in an application that although is recognized that it needs fixing, was not what my customer wanted me focusing on. You fall down the rabbit hole (as I did) when you become singularly...
Lazy Loading Class Instances on a form
One of my recent adventures in Access was to fix an issue where occasionally a class instance setup by the Form Open event was somehow getting blown away. I'm frankly not sure why. As far as I know the global variables on the form only get reset if you close and...
ADO and DAO recordset Filter property
Today, my customer for whom I had enabled transactions was having problems with the update routine. Ultimately, it stemmed from the fact that the Filter property is treated differently between the ADO recordset object and the DAO recordset object. I had originally...
Your Development Environment vs the Live Environment
Your development environment is important. You want to have fast performance as you develop and you want it to remain stable so it doesn't crash. I have a decent desktop with 2TB of NVME storage (the fastest I could get when I built it), two monitors and 64GB of...
Unintended Changes Deployed in an Access program
Today I got an email from a customer that they couldn't enter information into a certain form and asked me if I had it locked. Immediately, I knew I had messed up because I had made a change in my development database in which I changed that's form recordset to...
Ahh! Egg on my Face! (Or: Input mask and value options)
So I was wrong yesterday about phone number input masks and input values. An input mask value specifies a format, whether the mask is stored in the value, and the placeholder for users to enter data into the mask. This Microsoft web site discusses the pros and cons of...
DAO Workspace Transactions
So I had some legacy code that was testing an mdb connection to make sure it could get an exclusive lock on the file. If so, the code would then proceed doing an update procedure, but switched methods to use ADO. I am pretty certain that I wrote the code like 15 years...
Red, Green, Refactor vs. Specify, Encode, Fulfill
I was listening to the Mob Mentality podcast on Spotify and came across this episode. Here is the YouTube link (Spotify is only audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kL_tXiNcl4 The guest, Jason Swett, was talking about Test Driven Development and those coming into...
Dragging and dropping between Access Files
Did you know that you can drag and drop items from the navigation pane in one Access database to another Access database? I used this feature today as I needed to copy a somewhat complex form to display a series of entries in a linked table in both databases filtered...
Reformatting simple text based phone number strings in VBA
Today, for my customer's app, I wrote some VBA code in an after update routine of a textbox to strip out non-numeric characters and reformat them into a phone number format the customer wanted. Private Sub employee_phone_number_AfterUpdate() If IsPhoneNumberThere Then...
Hooray, I figured out color for VBA in my emails, I think…
A big shout out to Crystal Long (strive4peace) for this Access Add-In. So, I have simply been using a plugin on my WordPress site that I post the daily article to which in turn is picked up by my Kit account RSS feed reader and auto-emailed to everyone. I've always...
Test Driven Development (TDD) and Forms in Microsoft Access
I thought I would update folks on my TDD progress using VBA in Access. I use the RubberDuckVBA Unit Testing component to create and run tests. You don't need a fancy program or system like that to utilize automated testing, but I have enjoyed using it and the nice...
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