by Jonathan Halder | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
This property is on form and report sections and many controls like Text Boxes. This seems to be a wonderful property for automatically adjusting the height of things on a form until you make the inevitable discovery: It only works in a form when you are printing the...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
When registering events for controls on a subform, make sure you remember that you re-register those events after reloading the subform control via the SourceObject property. In my case, I was always loading a subform initially and the Open routine on the subform...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 6, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
My Access adventure today was helping work on a problem for a customer where they were getting errors on a form that was bound, and when opened automatically starts writing a default date and time to a record. The code checks to see if this record becomes valid as the...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 1, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
I gave copilot this prompt: Rewrite this VBA function using Uncle Bob’s SOLID principles:Function time_() ‘****************** Dim v_a As Integer Dim v_b As Integer Dim v_c As Integer ‘- – – – – – – – –...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 31, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
This is an experiment today. I don’t think I’ll get fully through what I would want to do today, but I want to start a little series on using TDD along with a form in Access. What would the whole process look like from beginning to end? I’m thinking...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 30, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
In a message I sent a few days ago: Test Driven Development Fakes Are Faking me out! I was lamenting that some tests I was trying to write using a fake testing object, simply were returning the values that I needed to pass the test. I’ll use a small bit of my...
