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FYI - Current Feature Work: Monaco Editor + Modern Chart Improvements
Hi,
Last week I published 2 videos in which the Microsoft Access team shows their current work on two new features for Access that will be launched in a few months: Monaco SQL Editor + Modern Charts Improvements.
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Karl_Donaubauer , thank you for creating these videos and for spreading the news about the upcoming Monaco Editor enhancement.
After watching the demo included in your video, I am excited for the new SQL editor and can't wait to use it. I plan on letting my colleagues know that it will be coming soon! Do you know (or have any guesses) whether the new editor will become the standard everyone must upgrade to and use? Or will users have the option to keep using the old SQL view, if they want?
Thanks for your insights!
Megan
Hi Megan,
Do you know (or have any guesses) whether the new editor will become the standard everyone must upgrade to and use? Or will users have the option to keep using the old SQL view, if they want?
I _think_ that the new editor will replace the old one. So, it will be the only choice in the versions where it will be implemented (Access 365, future perpetual licenses, for existing ones we will have to see).
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Access-Entwickler-Konferenz AEK - 19./20.10. Nürnberg- Thanks for the reply! 🙂
Karl_Donaubauer That's great! Access is still the best RAD tool on the market, and the best Desktop database everywhere. No matter how many new tools appear every year (I'm looking at you, Power Platform) there is no tool as complete and powerful as Access.
I've been using it since version 1.0 and still love it. Believe me... I try to find an app as powerful (and COMPLETE) as Access is, and in 30+ years, still looking!
If I could change Access in any way, I would implemente javaScript as a programming language (can you imagine that), replace FORMS with HTML and Code-Behind and, obviously, then add some support to export this Forms to web somehow.
That would create the BE-ALL and perfect tool for almost all scenarios. Well... I could dream!
Thank you for your GREAT WORK! And to make this incredible software better all the time!Hi,
I would implemente javaScript as a programming language (can you imagine that), replace FORMS with HTML and Code-Behind and, obviously, then add some support to export this Forms to web somehow.
...Well... I could dream!
I think your last sentence is the decisive here. 😉 I do not expect any major changes by Microsoft for Access. However, there's a realistic chance that for the first time we will see a (most likely commercial) choice for different kinds of extensions and modernizations from a third party vendor.
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Karl
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Access-Entwickler-Konferenz AEK - 19./20.10. Nürnberg"If I could change Access in any way, I would implemente javaScript as a programming language (can you imagine that), replace FORMS with HTML and Code-Behind and, obviously, then add some support to export this Forms to web somehow."
Uh, that sounds very much like Access Web Apps, which existed between 2013 and 2016 and were then deprecated.
Definitely, but Web Apps were implemented using proprietary objects that, outside of a controlled Windows environment, did not work very well... Not to mention the dependency on a certain browser...
If Access could completely replace its framework (Forms -> HTML Forms) and implement "Code Behind" using visual basic (vbScript) or (why not?) JavaScript, Access forms would (really) be complete web pages, easily exportable to a server like IIS, without specific dependencies or the use of "Office Objects" that only worked in a specific environment.In addition to the freedom that an expandable and expansive language like JavaScript gives to developers.
Why not have the best of both worlds?
