by Jonathan Halder | Aug 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Do you know what happens if you are in an Access text box and press Ctrl-A? You might expect all the text in it to be selected like a text box on a web page or in a Word document. But it doesn’t. If you are in a text box on a form in the normal single form view...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 15, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
I did more experimentation with Visual Studio Code today and the free Copilot Github and Cogent extensions. Copilot Github interfaces with the Github site Copilot feature which offers a free version. I also got the Cogent extension which acts as an agent for Copilot...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Today I spent the time I would have taken to write an article to start reviewing the 8th light’s TDD starter’s guide: https://8thlight.com/insights/getting-started-tdd-practical-guide I’m excited to practice more TDD. But the lion’s share of...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I was doing more complex report work today in Access. I had need to determine if my sub-report on another sub-report was running as a subreport or not. There is the case in development where I’m just testing it, but when it is running as a sub-report it needs to...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 6, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I had another Access report challenge. In my previous workaround using a Subreport in the main Report Footer section, I was able to hide the page header on the final page. Unfortunately, this is where my Page x of y field was located which was also hidden. In this...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
In my continuing AI adventures, I have decided to attempt to use a tool called Augment Code which can analyze and index my code base via Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code: An open source Code Editing IDE for multiple languages with a large number of extensions....
