by Jonathan Halder | Sep 5, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 13, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
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...
by Jonathan Halder | May 31, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
I have created a deployment script which is meant to prepare an Access JumpStart application for a specific live production environment. Access JumpStart is the framework Steve Halder and myself use in creating Access Applications for our customers. I have already...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 31, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Our next failing test will be based around getting multiple fields changed and returned within the BeforeUpdate event. ‘@TestMethod(“Verify Changes”) Private Sub WhenTwoTextFieldsChangeBeforeAndAfterValuesAreReturned() Dim testFormAuditor As...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 16, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Now our auditor will need to be a little smarter. We need to check the beginning and ending value of the test text field during the test in the form Before Update event. We won’t yet consider canceled BeforeUpdate events, I’ll just keep that in the back of...
