by Jonathan Halder | Dec 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries
Today I was splitting an address out of a table in order to replace the functionality of a single embedded address to multiple addresses. I had a Job table with the fields: Job Table fields: Job_ID, Address, city_job, state_job, zip_job And I am going to be removing...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 26, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
One of the features of our Access JumpStart application template is a form resizing class: This VBA class, HAL_FormResizeCls, is designed to handle the resizing of forms and their controls in Microsoft Access. Here’s a summary of its functionality and how...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 24, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
For your enjoyment, a Christmas poem and an Access poem, thoughtfully and carefully written by CoPilot: The Birth of Christ On a silent night in Bethlehem, so bright,A star heralded the Savior’s light.In a humble manger, love was born,Jesus Christ, on that holy...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 17, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I was struggling with trying to come up with tests for a new feature for an existing Access database. The feature is changing the way addresses are entered for work jobs. Basically the job structure which has had embedded address fields like street, city, state,...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
Karl Donaubauer hosted the Access development team at his German Access Developers Conference and there are some cool things coming down the pipe for us. One of them is re-integrating source code control back into Access: https://youtu.be/dP-YljKct5M?t=943 At one time...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 13, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
In my message yesterday, I installed the SDOpenAI plugin: Pair programming with AI – SDOpenAI – installing the plugin Today I setup an OpenAI API account (I had already done this in the past so I was beyond the free trial). I purchased $10 worth of resource. The...