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Access Programming – What I do and Why (Automating Access Decompiles)
I work on my own computers, a laptop and a desktop to do my main work on customer Access databases. Once I am at a point where I have something I want to give to the customer I want that process to work as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. Part of this process is...
Access Programming – What I do and Why (SQL query debugging)
Today I had an annoying error message occurring under cetain circumstances while creating a temporary table for an Access report to use. The error message was: Run-time error '94': Invalid use of Null Here are the steps I took to debug the error. Make sure I can...
TDD – 061 – Radio button, Checkboxes, and Toggle Buttons, Oh my!
Our next test will be to add an Option Group to the form and test that. Now Access has some weird caveats for option groups. You can have radio buttons, checkboxes, or toggle buttons in an Option Group. Each button or box can be labeled, but can only have a numeric...
TDD – 058 – Add a checkbox test
I'm going to start the next test with something simple. A new type of field. I will add a checkbox to the test form and bind it to a Yes/No field and write a test to check to see if it updates the values as expected. I added the checkbox to the form, added a new...
Access Programming – What I do and Why (Test Driven Development)
I first have to let you know that I am NOT actually doing Test Driven development on live projects consistently. I have created some tests for client work in the past before coding, but it has been quite rare. I like the idea of Test Driven Development and would like...
TDD – 063 – Thinking through the auditor and form field vs table column data changing
I am currently exploring the phenomenon that happens to different fields in a form that are bound to the same underlying table field. For an example I have two text fields (TestText and TestTextAlso) on a form that are both bound to the same underlying TestText column...
TDD – 060 – Using triple state checkboxes in Access
Yesterday I added a test for a triple state checkbox which should allow null, and True/False values to be set. I was reminded as I had initially tried to use an Access Yes/No field type that this does not have triple state. It can never be null, so therefore will not...
TDD – 057 – Tests refactored and ready to continue building more tests!
With the new set of functions that I've refactored last time, I'm going to update the other functions to use them. So let's go back to the first 3 counting tests and use the dictionary creation function to make them more readable. Here they are now:...
TDD – 064 – Finding the bound column in a form field
I'm going to add a data element to our collection so that the user of our Form Auditor class will have the bound field name from the ControlSource property. First I will add a new test to check for this additional field in order to have a failing test, then I can...
TDD – 062 – Auditing form controls bound to the same fields
Last time I was curious about this topic. What happens in the BeforeUpdate event to two separate controls that are bound to the same column? So rather than wonder what would happen... how about we test for the behavior we would want in this situation... which begs the...
TDD – 059 – Add a triple state checkbox test
Now I am going to add a triple state checkbox to the form. I have added a new text field that can be nullable, and bound a new "TestCheckTripleState" checkbox to it. The reason for this is that a "Yes/No" Access field cannot be null. It can only be true or false which...
TDD – 056 – Added functions to increase test readability
This test I refactored yesterday to use the new functions which all the tests are using. '@TestMethod("Count Changes") Private Sub WhenTwoFieldsAreChangedThenReturnTwoEntryListOfChanges() Dim testFormAuditor As FormAuditor, dctInput As New Scripting.Dictionary Set...

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