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Version Control Systems allow quick pivots in design

by Jonathan Halder | Apr 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning

I am pivoting directions on a project. After producing what the customer asked for, he realized it was making the whole system more complicated than he wanted, but may want to revisit it in the future. Thankfully, since I use versioning, it was trivial to move back to...

Access DevCon 9 (2025) Day 2 my reaction

by Jonathan Halder | Apr 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning

SessionTitlePresenter6Proven Sales StrategiesJuan Soto7The Battle of the VCS Add-InsPhilipp Stiefel, Adam Waller8Power Automate with VBAYnte Jan Kuindersma9twinBASIC+AI in Access DevelopmentMike Wolfe10Access Tools for DevelopersColin Riddington Session 6 was a very...

Upgrading our AJS template

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...

Drop in Native VBA (No references needed) Scripting.Dictionary replacement

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 28, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning

As I was working on some code to store custom tags related to controls, I thought it would be nice to use a dictionary object. Dictionary objects work by storing a value of some kind along with a key to find it. The Scripting.Dictionary object uses the VBScript...

Creating libraries for Access

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning

We all re-use code in one form or another. Perhaps it begins by copying and pasting routines into a text file. Perhaps you’ve used people’s online repositories of code that they place online, or you share your code in forum posts and search there for code...

Automating the Software Development Lifecycle

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 2, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning

I was watching this YouTube video by the Access Pacific User Group by Kent Gorrell. I was impressed with what he did basically building a version tracking system and amongst a slew of other things, built a system to automatically update SQL backends (with extensive...
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