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Custom tags for form controls – further refining a desired syntax

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 20, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

So far my idea just kind of sucks. It’s ok, sometimes one just has a sucky idea. I think what I’d really like to be able to do is something like this: ‘ In a form object, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do this? Private Sub Form_Load()...

Custom Tags For Custom tags for form controls – reimagined code

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 19, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

I’m imagining what the new code might look like based on the last message I wrote on this topic. Here is the URL to the previous article: https://www.accessjumpstart.com/custom-tags-for-form-controls-the-case-to-use-them-for/ So given this kind of syntax: Dim...

Using RecordsetClone to modify other records on a subform

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

Today I wrote up a quick proof of concept for a task to propagate changes to other records that matched a key of a cost reference number and a phase number. In this case, I wrote a before update event routine to check to see if there were other records that met the...

The Proxy Design Pattern in Access VBA

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I’ve been reading a book about Design Patterns. This particular book has Java sample code. It is written by Robert C Martin and is called Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices. I had been trying to wrap my brain around separating...

Just show the city from the address we chose. Simple.

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

In today’s adventure, I discovered what I thought was a simple change was not so simple. The system I’m working on has jobs and each job has POs written as part of doing the job. Each PO is delivered to an address which is USUALLY the job address, but not...
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