by Jonathan Halder | Apr 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today’s adventure in Access was a problem my customer was having with an imported file. Their shipment requests were being supplied via electronic delivery and then they send a confirmation via the same electronic delivery system. The recipient of the shipments...
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 | Apr 1, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I’ve been a relatively recent newcomer into Test Driven Development, only starting to implement it into my projects and been working on learning it since 2023 or so. Today, my Access adventuring leads me to work on changing the behavior of custom rule of the...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 31, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today’s adventure in Access involved discovering I’d been working on behavior in an application that although is recognized that it needs fixing, was not what my customer wanted me focusing on. You fall down the rabbit hole (as I did) when you become...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 28, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I got an email from a customer that they couldn’t enter information into a certain form and asked me if I had it locked. Immediately, I knew I had messed up because I had made a change in my development database in which I changed that’s form...
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...
