by Jonathan Halder | Mar 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
I wrote up this quick class module a while back to more easily and quickly replace file Input and Inputline functions in code with an array of lines for a file. Basically, I was pre-processing and staging text files into a usable format into a database and wanted to...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 10, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I had a friend ask me for more info about using access files as libraries, so here is some info I gathered up: First off is a link to a file Steve Halder created when researching building our library for our Access JumpStart product. This has a lot of info and sample...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 7, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
When you want to view the contents of a dictionary object in the VBA locals window, it turns out you just can’t. It shows the Dictionary Items collection with the item number and key contents, but not the value. In order to see what’s in the dictionary,...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I was refactoring some tests to make them easier to write for my application. In this application, I am testing lines on a subform to make sure they have the correct values. I used a class I created called a FormGetter which uses an interface so I can create a...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today’s adventure was helping a customer who had moved from an on premise Exchange server at their business to Microsoft 365 email accounts in the cloud. They needed to update their Access application with the new email settings. As I dove into the code, I found...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
This is a very basic set of 2 classes to produce a CustomTags object that can take an Access Control object from a form and store an internal dictionary intended to use string keys to store string values for that tag. The ControlTags and ControlTag currently use early...
