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...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 18, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Given a table as the persistence layer, we will use that table to save data for re-use. If there is a form bound to this table, what user interface functions does this perform? Controls bound to fields in the table are saved automatically based on various behaviors....
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 15, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
From my message yesterday:Separating business logic, user interface, and data persistence in a real world Access app | Access JumpStartI laid out a potential structure which included a Table which would be a data persistence layer a Form which represents a user...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 14, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Considering a simple app to calculate the number of payments it would take to payoff a credit card, how might I architect this in Access to optimize for separation of database, user interface, and business logic layers? Let’s consider a simple app with a table...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 13, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
What would your strategy for splitting a form between logic and database record management? I’m honestly asking, because that’s what I’m thinking about today. I’m thinking in terms of creating tests a la TDD style work. Having business logic...
