It’s alive!
We haven’t seen any signs of life from the Microsoft Access Dev Team in 4 months, but out of the blue, the Program Manager, Linda Lu Cannon posted a new Blog Post about joining the Access developer research panel.
Tag Archives: MS Access
Another msaccess.exe Process Not Closing Properly Bug
There isn’t much information at this point in time on the root cause and no official fix to the issue (there are workarounds however, see below), but it would seem that with the most recent update(s) Microsoft Access no longer closes properly and leaves instances of the msaccess.exe running in the background.
Where’s Microsoft Access On All The MS365 Pages?
I recently was flagged on a post on LinkedIn
Legacy Browser Vs Modern Web Browser Control, Which to Use?
Anyone that follows my blog, or Access for that matter, know that I am probably the foremost blogger regarding all things Access Browser related.
I have one of the most complete articles on the Legacy Web Browser Control (LWBC):
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About the Access WebBrowser Control
The Access WebBrowser control is one of the greatest and most frustrating controls available to any Access developer! The beauty of this control is it enables you to gain the power of the web within your database. On the other hand, I have found it very frustrating to program as many properties/methods available to the WebBrowser control in other platforms are simply not implemented in Access’ WebBrowser control. I have also found documentation and concrete advanced examples to be a rare commodity making development more frustrating than it should normally be. So I thought I’d put ‘pen to paper’, in…
and when the ‘new’ Modern Web Browser Control (MWBC) was released I compiled another article on the subject to try and give everyone else a quick guide to get going on the right foot:
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About the Access Modern Web Browser Control
So, we have a new ‘Modern’ Web Browser control, some people have also referred to it as the Edge Web Browser control! Well that is if you are running MS365 and using the BETA or Current Update Channels running build 16.0.16327.20214 or greater. You can check out the complete Modern Web Browser release cycle by reviewing: I thought, I would start documenting the new ‘Modern’ Web Browser control, like I had done for its predecessor:
Access Suffering from Alzheimer’s?
There may be a new Microsoft Access bug in the air as I have seen a couple recent mentions of Access default folders not working as they historically did.
Find Most Recent Similarly Named File From A Folder
So I was working on a project and was faced with a little issue. You see, I created a program which processes files that are generated by a web application and that get downloaded to the user’s PC. The problem is that if the file already exists, Windows helpfully adds a numeric prefix to differentiate the files.
Modern Web Browser Bug Rendering Media with CAPITILIZED Extensions
Here’s another really weird bug with the Modern Web Browser control that was mentioned to me by Juanfran Rodriguez (@juanfranrodriguez), one of my YouTube viewers.
The issue is that if you use a capitalized the file extension used in the Modern Web Browser control’s Control Source, when trying to directly display media, you will get gibberish displayed rather than the actual media.
MVP Awards Issued Today
I thought I’d just share that today was the big day in the Microsoft MVP community as today was the day that MVPs were awarded/re-awarded their MVP title.
Most Valuable Professionals
Technology Pros: We recognize exceptional community leaders for your technical expertise, positive influence on those around you and commitment to solving real world challenges with cutting-edge technology.Microsoft
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program recognizes exceptional community leaders for their technical expertise, leadership, speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to solving real world problems.Microsoft
You can use the search page to examine how the current awardees are in the various fields/countries/…
Playing Around With Microsoft Access Text Boxes
Today, I thought I’d simply share a few bits of code for things developers often need to do with Text boxes, and a few that I had fun creating just for the sake of seeing how it could be done!
Things like:
- Positioning the Cursor
- Selecting Text
- Inserting Text
- Retrieving Content
- And More…
Control Renaming Event Bug
Since I’m on the subject of Event bugs…
Copying or Cutting a Control Looses Its Events!?
I know, this isn’t anything new, but I still view it as a bug. Why is it if I Cut a control on a form to go and paste it in the same form elsewhere, we loose any associated events? The code remains in the Form module (VBE), just the event property value of [Event Procedure] are lost.
It only makes sense to mention another longstanding bug when renaming controls! One that I was reminded of by a recent comment on my YouTube channel by Xavier Batlle (@xavierbatlle1828)
Events also are lost when controls are renamed.Xavier Batlle