by Jonathan Halder | Sep 12, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries
What? Combo dropdown group headers? What voodoo is this? I have a combo box on a continuous form in an Item Description field. Each row on the continuous form can contain a line item that can be populated from different sources. There is a job estimate source where...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
There are of course a multitude of uses for a relational database system. Remember that although natively Access defaults to storing data relationally in tables using the file based ACE system (Access Connectivity Engine), it can really use any ODBC or OLE DB...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 19, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 4 | Access JumpStart Here is the full code I am discussing: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub GivenConcreteGroupDeleteTriggered_WhenReadOnlyStatusType_RequirePassword() On Error...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 3 | Access JumpStart Before diving into the next piece of the function, the Act, here is the full code: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 15, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
See yesterday’s message in the archive here: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 2 | Access JumpStart For reference, here is the full function I am discussing. ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 13, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
As I am continuing on my Test Driven Development journey, I am starting to learn how to write tests as I add new features to my code. A recent example would be a requirement to ask for a password if the user was trying to delete a line in an order. There are...
