I was recently part of a conversation regarding scaling/resizing images and the usual solutions were provided:
One person mentioned the GDI+ API, but didn’t provide any code, so I decided to take some of my existing routines and see if I couldn’t make it happen.
I was recently reading Mike Wolfe’s new article about having a profitable consulting career.
and thought to myself, in an ideal world his words might be true, that competence/solving a problem would ensure success and profitability, but this isn’t an ideal world and so I thought I’d share a little of my knowledge and experience on the matter.
I myself have had this issue where my PC didn’t have the correct time.
Furthermore, I was working at a clients and about 10 of the PCs suffered from the same issue, Windows had the wrong time.
I went into the Date & Time dialog and tried using the ‘Sync now‘ button and it never did anything. Reboot, nothing! Change Time zones, and then back again, nothing!
Some weird bug at work here! Some PCs were fine, yet others were not, with the exact same settings on the same network … 🤷
Ever wonder when you should actually avoid using Microsoft Access?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, Access is a great product, but it can’t do it all and a good developer needs to recognize limitations and select to use alternate technologies if/when required by the mandate.
In this discussion, I am talking about using Access for both the Front-End and Back-End.
I just wanted to state that I most probably won’t be pursuing any more development using the new ‘Modern’ Web Browser control for a little while.
I’ve:
I wanted to provided an update to code provided on The Access Web’s website to find the associate executable to a file. The original article/code can be found at:
My goal was to make it 64-bit compliant, but once I started doing so and investigating, I also decided to update the declarations, constants, messages to match those in Microsoft documentation for the API. The resulting then became:
Just curious if anyone else testing the Modern Web Browser control has been experiencing rendering/display issues similar to:
For my German speaking friends, take note that AEK is once again almost upon us! This year, Karl Donaubauer is holding the conference October 14th and 15th, 2023.
Furthermore, he is returning to the conference’s roots and only hosting it as a live event only (so no remote MS Teams access this year), in Nuremberg.
First brought to my attention by a comment from Darvin Martin, there appears to be another major limitation with the Modern Web Browser control.
It would seem that you cannot mix content sources. Let me explain …
Even though the Microsoft Access Modern Web Browser control made its appearance back in May, it has taken Microsoft 3 months to make any form of an official announcement, show any form of pride in their own work!
As they say:
So here’s their official blog/release notification:
