by Jonathan Halder | Dec 20, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I am trying to build a Form Auditing class using TDD. So far I’ve created a FormListener class which hooks into the Form BeforeUpdate handler. Then I created a FormIterator class which will eventually iterate through the Form object during the BeforeUpdate event...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 19, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Time to do more test driven development! So we left off last time thinking about doing a test to see if a dictionary object I am going to create to store the form field changes is a new object. I was trying to determine how to Assert that using RubberDuckVBA and I was...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 18, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Refactoring code is something I do often. Trying to find ways to make things simpler and more readable are two reasons of many that I do this. As I work on code and refactor it, I find myself continually, daily, using tools to find and replace code, and not quite as...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 15, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Our test driven development continues! We are creating a Form Auditor and so far have a basic form listening class and now we need a class which will iterate over a form and collect the Old and New values of fields that are different. I am creating a skeleton of the...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 14, 2023 | MS Access
There is this cool technique I learned about called the Pomodoro Technique (See article on Wikipedia) The idea is to work in specified time increments. Often I problem I have had is that I get lost in my work. I’m working on some problem and all other things go...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
So in order for the FormListener class to raise an event which passes all the bound field’s old and new values, or chooses the ones that have changed, I am feeling like I can create a testable object to do that. Something like a FormIterator. It should be run in...
