by Jonathan Halder | Apr 2, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
In today’s adventure, I have a complex application I am updating from an older version of our Access Jump Start application template from when we were calling it RDF (Rapid Development Framework). I am doing this so I will have access to some of the newer...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 27, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Did you know that you can drag and drop items from the navigation pane in one Access database to another Access database? I used this feature today as I needed to copy a somewhat complex form to display a series of entries in a linked table in both databases filtered...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 25, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms
So I was wrong yesterday about phone number input masks and input values. An input mask value specifies a format, whether the mask is stored in the value, and the placeholder for users to enter data into the mask. This Microsoft web site discusses the pros and cons of...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
Today, my customer for whom I had enabled transactions was having problems with the update routine. Ultimately, it stemmed from the fact that the Filter property is treated differently between the ADO recordset object and the DAO recordset object. I had originally...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 20, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
So I had some legacy code that was testing an mdb connection to make sure it could get an exclusive lock on the file. If so, the code would then proceed doing an update procedure, but switched methods to use ADO. I am pretty certain that I wrote the code like 15 years...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
Your development environment is important. You want to have fast performance as you develop and you want it to remain stable so it doesn’t crash. I have a decent desktop with 2TB of NVME storage (the fastest I could get when I built it), two monitors and 64GB of...
