by Jonathan Halder | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I’ve been reading a book about Design Patterns. This particular book has Java sample code. It is written by Robert C Martin and is called Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices. I had been trying to wrap my brain around separating...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
In today’s adventure, I discovered what I thought was a simple change was not so simple. The system I’m working on has jobs and each job has POs written as part of doing the job. Each PO is delivered to an address which is USUALLY the job address, but not...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 7, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Ok, should have done a screen shot, and I could go back and recreate it and get one, but not in the time I have right now… 😀 I was working in an app and had a Class outside of a form that had a function to get a reference to the form by name if it had been lost....
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I wrote a couple of times last week about custom tags and creating a class that could store custom tag information. I am further refining the requirements of the class using a real world example of something I will be using it for. I’m bringing in an enum here...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Yesterday, I talked about creating a class for custom tags for form controls. In particular, I have a class I’ll call FormResizer. I want FormResizer to be able to set and read top, left, width, and height properties for the original attributes of the control so...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 20, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Every Access control has a tag property which stores a string. I’ve used this property before to store information about a control I’ll need later. Kind of a poor man’s custom property. Let’s say you want to store something in that tag...
