Mike Wolfe - No Longer Set

Throwback Thursday: April 24, 2025

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about building file names, verifying folder paths, and other related file system activities.

DevCon

Microsoft Graph API with Maria Barnes

How to Create and Send Outlook Emails from Access without COM via Microsoft's Graph API (an Access DevCon Vienna talk with Maria Barnes)

Version Control

Managing VBA's Case-Change Chaos: The 80/20 Approach to Smoother Access Version Control

Explore how VBA’s global casing changes flood Access version control with false positives and how ignoring case-only differences can help.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: April 21, 2025

Highlights include another community animated GIF project (this one with multi-threading!) and a tB wrapper for the BearLibTerminal library.

Holiday

Happy Easter

“[Mary] saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been…They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’”

Week in Review

Week in Review: April 19, 2025

Highlights include an update to the VBA Graph API project, using class modules in the real world, using the QuickBooks REST API via VBA, and modern Msg/InputBoxes.

DevCon

Programming Modern Charts with Colin Riddington

Mastering the 11 New Chart Types in Access 365: Complete Developer Guide (an Access DevCon Vienna talk with Colin Riddington)

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: April 17, 2025

"Boring is beautiful." In today's Throwback Thursday, we're confronted with the uncomfortable truth that the best software is often uninteresting to write.

DevCon

Access Community Update with Karl Donaubauer

Microsoft Access in 2024: Usage Statistics and Future Roadmap (an Access DevCon Vienna talk with Karl Donaubauer)

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: April 15, 2025

Highlights include a new animated GIF control from fafalone, an autocomplete twinPACK from Krool, and a tB app to clean up VB6 comments from lfeche.

DevCon

Access DevCon Vienna 2025 - Day Two Recap

Day 2 of DevCon Vienna 2025 covered sales strategies, version control, Power Automate, twinBASIC, AI, and developer tools.

DevCon

Access DevCon Vienna 2025 - Day One Recap

Day 1 of Access DevCon Vienna 2025 showcases community updates, modern charts, Graph API solutions, VBA enhancements, and Microsoft's roadmap.

Week in Review

Week in Review: April 12, 2025

Highlights include recaps from Access DevCon Vienna 2025, another (!) update to the Access roadmap, and working with JSON in VBA.

Presentations

twinBASIC and AI: DevCon 2025

Links and resources from my presentation today on twinBASIC and AI at Access DevCon Vienna 2025.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: April 10, 2025

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about testing: Python-inspired doc tests, my B-BEAR quick and dirty T-SQL test technique, and a proper SQL Server unit testing tool.

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: April 7, 2025

Highlights include an update to the twinBASIC roadmap, my thoughts on the new release date, and your last chance to register for my upcoming tB DevCon Vienna talk.

Tools

Whisper Desktop: Free Speech-to-Text in Under 5 Minutes

A 5-minute quick start guide for Whisper Desktop, an easy-to-install Windows application for running the open-source Whisper transcription model from OpenAI.

Week in Review

Week in Review: April 5, 2025

Highlights include a new item on the Access Roadmap, integrating with Monday.com from Access, and a new commenting platform for NoLongerSet.com.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: April 3, 2025

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we look back at past Access DevCon Vienna conferences (and forward to next week's conference).

twinBASIC Weekly Update

twinBASIC Update: April 1, 2025

Highlights include 2D and 3D graphics engines converted for tB use, initial touchscreen support in the tB IDE form designer, and PacMan in tB!

Comentario: The New Commenting Engine for NoLongerSet.com

NoLongerSet.com is migrating from Commento to Comentario for our comment hosting platform. Everything should look the same...but better.

Week in Review

Week in Review: March 29, 2025

Highlights include a video series on cascading combo boxes, parsing data using JSON and VBA in Access, and configuring DNS records for a custom email sending domain.

Presentations

Access Day 2025: Outlook COM Automation Alternatives

Links and resources from my talk today for J Street Technology's in-person Access Day conference at the mothership (aka, Microsoft Headquarters).

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: March 27, 2025

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore how to create GUIDs in your Access applications and how you can use them to simplify creating temporary files.

Email

Mailgun: Setting Up a Custom Sending Domain

Set up a custom Mailgun sending domain to replace Outlook COM automation. This guide walks through SPF, DKIM, and MX record setup.