by Jonathan Halder | Jan 23, 2026 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I have a condition that to the application owners of an Access app is an error condition. If they try to import a parts file and the part pricing isn’t in the part pricing table already, it should stop the import and tell the user to add the pricing information...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Let’s say you really want Access to go slow, maybe so it was unusable, maybe so it wouldn’t even work and corrupt your databases consistently. How would you do that? First, make sure you add in a LOT of latency. So create a front end Access database that...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I utilized a couple of library routines I built to manage an Excel export. Step 1 – Get an Excel object from a function which opens a particular xlsx file as a template, then copies it to a new file name given by the function. I have other functions which can...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
This is a little different than my usual email, but just decided to decompress from what I was working on today before heading into the weekend. I worked on a couple interesting things today: A Launcher app using a class object to authenticate and connect to a...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
Today’s adventure is using CoPilot ChatGPT-5 to create a test and code based on a production database requirement. I’m using RubberDuckVBA to do unit testing. My initial prompt to start the conversation was: I am wanting to get help with creating tests for...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Ever wonder what a developer running a sole proprietorship does? Here’s a little snapshot of my life this week. This week i’ve been up to a couple of things: I’ve updated a client to provide a button to their navigation to open a particular query....