by Jonathan Halder | Jan 31, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Enjoy! ‘Creating a Passthrough query read only recordset on the fly in VBA ‘Put this in a normal module, call it from any other module ‘This is requiring DAO.Database and DAO.QueryDef objects so that ‘ the recordset will survive after the...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 30, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
So this is my latest nested error test code. You can put it in any public code module and run MainProcedure to see what it will do. The thing to do here is to see how Access will behave in various scenarios and the code paths that execute and the ones that...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 29, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
So the reason I was getting strange behavior in some tests I was running was because there was a third party class which responsibly used an error handling scheme used in it’s tests which required an error being raised with Err.Raise to pass up to the calling...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 28, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I am running into a situation in someone else’s code where an Err.Raise call is not getting handled by any of the upstream calling functions and ends up calling the main VBA system debugger displaying the VBA error dialog. I was trying to recreate the problem...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 28, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
As I was working on some code to store custom tags related to controls, I thought it would be nice to use a dictionary object. Dictionary objects work by storing a value of some kind along with a key to find it. The Scripting.Dictionary object uses the VBScript...
