by Jonathan Halder | Jan 8, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I had a weird problem that took me about 2 hours to track down. I had a normal form in Continuous view that was not triggering an error of any kind, but would not write to the record. It could see all the records, you could navigate to them, and I had a delete...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 20, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I’ve been sick for the past two days, and kept getting too tired to create a post for the day. So I did what I could for my clients first, then slept. 😛 I’m feeling much better today, so I’m back in the messaging chair. I ended up scrapping my idea...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I am going to test out the free version of the SDOpenAI Access plugin to see how well it works to pair program with. The web site is in German, but I had no problem downloading the executable file (albeit with multiple warning prompts from Edge about being a file that...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 21, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 20, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 19, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
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...
