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Access and ODBC: a quick overview

by Jonathan Halder | May 17, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries

One great thing about Access is all the various ways it can connect to data in tables. Using ODBC, Access can connect to anything with an ODBC driver that you can install. I’ve done connections using datasource names as well as DSN-less connections to SQL...

Getting back on the horse, and form layout label auto configure issue

by Jonathan Halder | May 16, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms

I have been slack in writing for the past week. The main obstacle is that I had a great suggestion about writing more to my target market in terms of Access JumpStart. This turned out to be a big pivot in my thought process, and I’m not sure I’m there yet....

TDD – 077 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing (part 4)

by Jonathan Halder | May 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I have not written anything for a week. Bad me. So, the nice thing about testing is that I was able to fire up my tests and run them and I see right where I was working when I left off last time. Continuing from last time, I am going to add the same form getting...

TDD – 076 – Breaking Dependencies for Testing (part 3)

by Jonathan Halder | May 1, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

In my application I have a class object called “ECI_POLineController” with a method called “IsLineValid”. My job was to be able to write a test for this and I have done that. It needs to set some different values on the line to verify the...
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