by Jonathan Halder | Oct 2, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
I didn’t think this would be a showstopper, but guess what, it is! If you have a version of Access later than 2010, you cannot open an Access 95 or Access 97 database at all. You get a fun error message: And it won’t do anything with the database at all. I...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 30, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Our Access application framework that Steve and I developed and use to build our apps is called Access JumpStart. It does not include vbWatchdog by default for those who buy our framework, but it contains code to work with vbWatchdog if the developer of the app has...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
After my message yesterday, I updated my strategy a little bit. Yesterday, I added the code to my global error handler that is always called by vbWatchdog. I created a Call Stack string variable every time there was an error regardless of how it was going to get...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 26, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Just a quick note today. I wanted to add the call stack to my error log messages for my client app. That way I could see the full set of calls that was causing the error and it would help me debug better. For example, if I pass bad SQL to my SQL Executing function, I...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 25, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I have finished coding the solution. I ended up using DAO after all. The solution grabs a collection containing info about the source and target database paths and table names. Then it loops through the collection, opens the target database, deletes the table if it...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 24, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I received a task today to update a demo / WIP Access system which will be upgrading an existing Access system. Many parts of the system are the same, the upgrade is meant to address importing data from a new datasource. The customer is currently using both systems...
