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Mark Jaskula

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  1. Create a table / linked table with a size greater than 255 fields

    30 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  2. Datasheet Column Header Formatting

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    2 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    This would be a great addition instead of what I currently do which is putting a label above it with all that column names, but doesn't really work now for me due to DPI issues ect.

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  3. Allow all text from a variable to be viewed and copied in a watch list

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    0 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  4. Make Access a better ODBC client

    200 votes
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    11 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    What I'm doing is creatng a VB.Net DLL and adding it as a reference to the Access DB. Create and I/O interface, and get all the riches of Visual Studio with Entity Framework, parallel processing etc.
    No brainer consider the snail's pace progress of fundamental MS Access functionality.

  5. Add New Controls through Code

    3 votes
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    7 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    Joe/Mark, I'll give your suggestions a go, thanks. I also redesigning the Access Front end to be more "organic" (some of the code is 15 years old), to not require dynamically generated (or pre-generated) controls to exist.

    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    Hiding/unhiding existing controls is exactly what I do at present, it's just a real pain to create many hundreds of controls for certain "dynamic" forms to cover the worst case scenarios. Just would be nice and easier to programmatically create the correct amount through code in real time.

    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    URL is https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa221167(v=office.11).aspx

    If I'm not mistaken, from my quick test, CreateControl only works when you are in design or layout mode not a live mode. Perhaps you could create a form live using CreateControl and save and open it, but what I'm after is having a pre-existing form where you can dynamically add new controls as you see fit in a live situation.

    Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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  6. Automatically resize MS-Access Applications

    277 votes
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    12 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  7. Breakpointing

    5 votes
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  8. ODBC errors need to return more information error 3146 does not provide enough detail

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    4 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » External Data Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Mark Jaskula commented  · 

    I can confirm Anders comment, it's a fantastic titbit particularly when you get referential integrity errors and want to know the culprit easily.

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