by Jonathan Halder | Aug 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Do you know what happens if you are in an Access text box and press Ctrl-A? You might expect all the text in it to be selected like a text box on a web page or in a Word document. But it doesn’t. If you are in a text box on a form in the normal single form view...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 15, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
I did more experimentation with Visual Studio Code today and the free Copilot Github and Cogent extensions. Copilot Github interfaces with the Github site Copilot feature which offers a free version. I also got the Cogent extension which acts as an agent for Copilot...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I spent the time I would have taken to write an article to start reviewing the 8th light’s TDD starter’s guide: https://8thlight.com/insights/getting-started-tdd-practical-guide I’m excited to practice more TDD. But the lion’s share of...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I was doing more complex report work today in Access. I had need to determine if my sub-report on another sub-report was running as a subreport or not. There is the case in development where I’m just testing it, but when it is running as a sub-report it needs to...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables
Most of my customers that I build Access apps for have not been Access users. In other words, they tend to know very little about tables or queries or reports, design view, VBA modules and macros. This tends to make my job easier in that I don’t have to be...
