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Writing tests for legacy code – Part 3
See yesterday's message in the archive here: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 2 | Access JumpStart For reference, here is the full function I am discussing. '@TestMethod("DeleteAction") Private Sub...
Writing tests for legacy code – Part 2
See yesterday's message in the archive here: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 1 | Access JumpStart I'm going to start breaking down the test I wrote and what I'm doing and why. Here is the whole test: '@TestMethod("DeleteAction") Private Sub...
Writing tests for legacy code – Part 1
As I am continuing on my Test Driven Development journey, I am starting to learn how to write tests as I add new features to my code. A recent example would be a requirement to ask for a password if the user was trying to delete a line in an order. There are...
Tree View Control
I watched half of a new Access Users Group video on the tree view control by Pete Poppe which I link to at the bottom of this message. I learned something new. The last time I used the Treeview control I never ended up implementing it in a customer's project because...
Cost and Price for custom written software
In the consideration of charging customers for custom software you are writing for them there are different terms here that sometimes get used interchangeably. I'm going to define them for this article as two very distinct and separate things and will do so in terms...
Can you make a living with Microsoft Access?
The resounding answer to this is "Yes". BUT - what if you can't seem to make it work? There are actually a number of ways to monetize your Access skills: Offering your services as an Access Application developer to create, modify, and/or maintain Access databases.Many...
Simple Active / Inactive Access Combo Box Dropdown List
I was working with a friend yesterday and he was showing me how he was showing a bound dropdown list on a combo box on a bound form. He was using a UNION query and VBA to update the combo box RowSource value each time to include another row in the dropdown if the...
Access VBA isn’t always the quickest thing out there…
Don't get me wrong. Access VBA can perform very well in most situations. There have been a few times where I've needed to improve the speed of some function I was using and Access just took too long. One of those is hashing values for files. There is a hashing...
Troubleshooting an ODBC error in Access
Access Error (3155) ODBC: "Query timeout expired". It happened when trying to insert a new record into a linked table called "order" I'm using ODBC driver 17 in this case and it happened twice. Not sure if the user tried to do it twice or if my code kept going and...
We aren’t good project time estimators
This is one reason why I don't like giving time estimates to customers. You know the drill: Customer: So how long is it going to take you to do X? Me: Uh, when do you want it? Customer: Yesterday. Me: Not that fast... how about on Friday? My decision for Friday is...
Versioning to the rescue
I use an SVN server to store versioning information for all my Access work that I do. A shout out to the OASISsvn Access Add In and TortoiseSVN for Windows which are two pieces of software I use daily in my Access versioning work. How it saved by butt today: I had a...
Understanding Access Events Can Be Tricky
Yesterday, I was talking about the BeforeUpdate form event and BeforeUpdate Access control event as ways I was looking at triggering a validation function and then canceling the event so the update would not occur. A reader wrote in to mention usage of the Change...
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