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An example of using AI to write a function
Programming with AI You can shortcut some work by asking a large language model (LLM) how to do something. If someone else out there has done it and the AI LLM has trained on it, it might even do a decent job. Today I needed to write a function that would take a...
Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 4)
In Part 3 (Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 3) | Access JumpStart) we arrived at this code with helper functions and a helper class: Function PS_GetFileHashes(aFiles As Variant, sHashAlgorithm As String) As Scripting.Dictionary Dim retVal As New...
6 Customers and a Brain Freeze
Within about an hour this morning I had 6 customers communicating with me this morning via email right before an hour long customer meeting. I whipped off answers as needed, scheduled calls for later in the week, blended up some code fixes and researched buggy...
Access Object Names With Spaces and NiceDLookup
So first things first. It is not recommended that you use spaces or special characters in your table names as it can cause problems referencing them or cases that are ambiguous and may cause unintended results in the code. But maybe you have used them in the...
Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 3)
I'll continue refactoring today, here's where I ended up in yesterday's message. It's the main function that's been split up into 1 helper function to test the Hash and make sure it's available, otherwise display a message box. And a new class that holds information...
Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 2)
Here's our big hairy function I'm working on to refactor and get it a little more compact. So far the following contains a new instance of the class PS_FileHashesCommand which removed some constants to their own class with two needed little methods. Those lines look...
Refactoring the function PS_GetFileHashes (Part 1)
In a recent message I referenced some changes I made to this function and included a copy of it. I mentioned that I wanted to refactor it after getting the behavior I wanted because it's rather unreadable. So let's see how I would refactor this: Function...
What Would File Hashing Be Used For?
I had a question from a reader - Jim P - about the usage of yesterday's function. Why did I write it and what am I using it for? I wrote a response to Jim and thought I would share with the group: In yesterday's message (Hashing An Array of Files), the function shown...
Hashing An Array of Files
I wrote a function to take a number of files I wanted hashed as an array of fully qualified file paths. The function then iterates over the array to build a giant PowerShell command containing all the paths, parses the output of PowerShell and returns a dictionary...
When to use Access, Excel, or both!
This article from Microsoft Support discusses the differences between using Microsoft Access and Excel for managing data, helping users decide which tool is best suited for their needs. I've used Copilot to help me create a quick summary of the article you can use as...
Access Primer for Businesses – way more than a database
There are of course a multitude of uses for a relational database system. Remember that although natively Access defaults to storing data relationally in tables using the file based ACE system (Access Connectivity Engine), it can really use any ODBC or OLE DB...
Combining or Splitting VBA lines
There is a way to run multiple lines of code on one line in VBA and another way to separate one line of VBA code across multiple lines. I find in particular when using the Immediate Window in the VBE editor, that if I want to test a class I'm using there, I need to be...
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