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Playing well with other VBA developers
Have you collaborated on an Access database with others? I'd like to do more of this personally. I think sharing experiences of coding with others in terms of pair or mob programming would be fun, informative, and helpful for all involved. Pair or Mob programming...
Using a class as the main application
In the following linked message, I started creating a form and within the form code module I created some local variables to store a class object for accounts and then used the Form Current event to test the form to make sure it was valid before running the Account...
Lazy loading of objects in VBA
Some things you do when designing forms inherently reset the VBA environment. This takes all your existing object variables in that form and resets them. That's why I often use a function to refer to an object to check to make sure it exists before I use it so I don't...
How about a good VBA coding practices bootcamp?
Ok, a while back I asked you about TDD and doing a bootcamp and I did not get too many responses indicating interest in that, so how about a good VBA coding practices bootcamp? I'm thinking about going over practices suggested by Uncle Bob and would start with the...
What to do and focusing on doing it
Working as an independent consultant for 25 years has definitely improved my focus on working productively. I think it was after the first month of working without any supervision, that I realized that I couldn't just do whatever I wanted and delay my actual billable...
Tenatively laying out an application structure
Now I have some code. Here's what my form looks like so far: That contains the following module: 'Form_frmAccounts Option Compare Database Option Explicit Private InternalAccount As AccountInterface Private Function Acct() As AccountInterface If InternalAccount Is...
Implementing an Access architecture for the credit card payoff app
I am currently discussing a credit card payoff application I'm working on in terms of Model-View-Control architecture in a series of messages. In this message, moving back to forms, I have built a form (user interface) which I am going to think of as the user...
Test Driven Development and Tables in Access
As I think about and discuss an architecture for an Access application I was considering the data persistence layer again and thinking about why one might want to test it. For example, what if your application is meant to track historic events throughout the history...
Considering the various user interface functions of a form
Given a table as the persistence layer, we will use that table to save data for re-use. If there is a form bound to this table, what user interface functions does this perform? Controls bound to fields in the table are saved automatically based on various behaviors....
Why, Jon, Why??? For the love of VBA, Why?????
From my message yesterday:Separating business logic, user interface, and data persistence in a real world Access app | Access JumpStartI laid out a potential structure which included a Table which would be a data persistence layer a Form which represents a user...
Separating business logic, user interface, and data persistence in a real world Access app
Considering a simple app to calculate the number of payments it would take to payoff a credit card, how might I architect this in Access to optimize for separation of database, user interface, and business logic layers? Let's consider a simple app with a table like...
You can split a db, but can you split a form?
What would your strategy for splitting a form between logic and database record management? I'm honestly asking, because that's what I'm thinking about today. I'm thinking in terms of creating tests a la TDD style work. Having business logic that you could separate...
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