[AccessD] Access 2021 accde (64 bit) incompatible with Access 2013 64 bit

[Jim Dettman]

<< What’s the skinny on the ODB handling? >>

It's in here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-access-2019-f52c5317-3494-4105-9c56-5a2abb8e0f87

about halfway down.

 Monaco was delayed, but there still have been improvements made to the query editor.  There is now a find and replace feature, and you can directly open a table in either view (data or design), or choose "Size to Fit" in the shortcut menu so you can see the full table name and fields.  That’s covered here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-access-2021-2c5c0766-b22b-4b81-a222-a791a8b5b54b

 and you can view a demo of those new features here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4xTwmflTcI

<< The rest I knew about but still find that minimal for 8 years of development time between 2013 and 2021>>

  There are other things as well, like the graphs and  a lot of minor things you might not notice, like wider clickable areas in some of the UI elements.

  Access 2016 didn't have much (most of the changes there were not visible), but everything since that has added significant features that you do and I would not say they are minimal.   

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Wehler 
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 7:53 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Cc: Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2021 accde (64 bit) incompatible with Access 2013 64 bit

What’s the skinny on the ODB handling? The rest I knew about but still find that minimal for 8 years of development time between 2013 and 2021. We’ve yet to see the Monaco editor that was promised this year, too. 

Not sure I call the giant red streak along the top (since 2016?) much of a UI refinement. In fact I had users come ask me how to get rid of it already. 

> On Dec 29, 2021, at 6:18 AM, Jim Dettman via AccessD <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes, along with support for DateTime2 in SQL, more robust ODBC connection
> handling, a new Linked Table Manager, UI refinements, numerous improvements
> in the SQL Editor, and quite a number of other things.
> 
> Access has not been standing still by any means.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 7:13 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2021 accde (64 bit) incompatible with Access
> 2013 64 bit
> 
> One major difference between 2013 and 2021 is the LargeNumber/BigInt data
> type 
> introduced in 2016.
> 
> 
>> On 28 Dec 2021 at 8:15, Ryan W wrote:
>> 
>> Okay fair enough. Your link does say that but Access has been so stale
>> on the development front for some time that the differences between
>> 2013 and 2021 are minimal AT BEST.
>> 
>> I've installed Access 2013 64-bit on a VM and compiled it. I guess
>> this will have to work for now.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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