by Jonathan Halder | Oct 17, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
Back 6 months ago I was asked to add new fields to check for the validity of a line item on an order. This caused me to go through a rather extensive process to break dependencies on an Access form so that I could test it without having to launch the form and build an...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 14, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Despite my best efforts, sometimes I end up with complicated code. The logic snakes and wraps around like crazy river rapids. Today, I had such a part of my customer’s database that I was working in and it was not easy. Most of the time this problem occurs...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 9, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
When implementing logging in your Access app, some of the things you might want to log are: Opening and closing of objects which have VBA associated with them. Typically Forms and Reports. Try to add a log message which includes the primary key when you edit or add a...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
If you haven’t had the pleasure of Uncle Bob Martin books or videos, you’re missing out. I’d recommend a search on YouTube for Uncle Bob’s Clean Code. I watched a lot of his videos when I had an O’Reilly subscription and that led me to...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 4, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
The Access 97 database I was trying to get working on my 365 Access was written to scramble data in existing tables in a destructive way so that users of a forum or other developers could look at code without seeing sensitive data. I copied some large tables I had...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 30, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Our Access application framework that Steve and I developed and use to build our apps is called Access JumpStart. It does not include vbWatchdog by default for those who buy our framework, but it contains code to work with vbWatchdog if the developer of the app has...
