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VBA Compiler Constants are handy… beware of the details

by Steven Halder | Dec 5, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding

You can control how your project is compiled. Have one “source base” that you use for multiple purposes, environments, or in multiple “modes” of operation. You can use Microsoft defined Compiler Constants and you can define your own....

Using the Access Web Browser Control

by Steven Halder | Dec 5, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

The Access Web Browser Control is not a Web Browser Object, but does contain one. To access the internal workings of the control with VBA code, it is most convenient to dimension and use variables as follows, where the name of the control is “MyWebBrowserControl”: DIM...

acCmdDeleteRecord – unintended problems

by Steven Halder | Dec 5, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

Case Study The issueA form contained several combo boxes linked to tables, sub-forms, and a delete button intended to delete the current record.  The client noticed while deleting records that occasionally one of the combo box linked records would get...
What do those error codes mean?

What do those error codes mean?

by Steven Halder | Jan 31, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding

So you’re updating some VBA code you wrote a while back… Now what is the Error Processing section doing? What do those Error Numbers mean? I shoulda’ written some comments! Well you can just look up each of those error descriptions quickly by using...
Your Access Application has Crashed! What to do?

Your Access Application has Crashed! What to do?

by Steven Halder | Jan 27, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding

So your Access application crashed and user feedback is not specific enough to diagnose the problem? It sure would be nice if your application VBA code could send you an email with all the error details! Well, The Smiley Coder has written and published just such a...

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