Day 1 Agenda:
| 1 | Access Community Update | Karl Donaubauer |
| 2 | Programming Modern Charts | Colin Riddington |
| 3 | Microsoft Graph API | Maria Barnes |
| 4 | VBE_Extras | John Mallinson |
| 5 | News from the Access Team | Microsoft |
Session 1 was a little scary, Frankly, Microsoft does not seem to want Access to continue into the future looking at how they are not offering it except with Microsoft 365 or by itself and it’s not easy for people to find that option. It made me consider looking for alternatives to Access for future development of PC apps. I researched and considered Filemaker Pro as a possible migration path from Microsoft Access as well as thinking about using Access Runtime as future application development and trying to update Access JumpStart so it will work with Access Runtime well.
Session 2 was ok, but I don’t really use charting at all so it was more an interesting intellectual exercise than anything else. Colin is definitely great, an amazing Access developer and I highly recommend looking into the app and information about the new charts that he’s been working on if you work in any way with them.
Session 3 was all about how to use Microsoft Graph API to access information within Microsoft Outlook Online. It was a good session and I believe it can lead to the Holy Grail of creating a message for a user to edit and send, but we’re not quite there yet.
Session 4 was interesting. I like John’s add-on. I haven’t purchased it yet, but I had certain things that I found particularly appealing. One is the ability to use auto-complete for non-referenced libraries. That’s pretty darn cool. Also John mentioned aspects of the add-in for Version Control. That is something I’m quite interested in.
Session 5 – news directly from the Microsoft Access Development team… I hung on their every word. Basically looks like they are continuing to improve the Monaco SQL editor which is a great thing for everyone, and in particular they are working on zoom features for Access forms which is pretty awesome. In addition to making large screen usage a thing (meaning wider forms and reports). Woo-hoo. They also were quite impressed with Colin and his assistance in identifying bugs and issues with the features on the Improved Reports. I liked that… The Access team likes the feedback from our community and considers it important.
So what will tomorrow bring? I’ll let you know!