by Jonathan Halder | Mar 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 20, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 19, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
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...
