How to check whether Connection Refresh was successful

Question

In Excel 2016 VBA, I\'m refreshing several queries like this:

MyWorkbook.Connections(MyConnectionName).Refresh

After the code is done, and

Answer 1

Just found this solution at Execute code after a data connection is refreshed

The bottom line is: Excel refreshes data connection in the background and thus the rest of the code is executed without interruption.

Solution: set BackgroundQuery property to False

Example:

For Each cnct In ThisWorkbook.Connections
   cnct.ODBCConnection.BackgroundQuery = False
Next cnct

Possible problem: don't know which connection it is...

Remedy: case... when...

Dim cnct as WorkbookConnection ' if option explicit
' ODBC and OLE DB
For Each cnct In ThisWorkbook.Connections
   Select case cnct.type
      case xlconnectiontypeodbc
   cnct.ODBCConnection.BackgroundQuery = False
      case xlconnectiontypeoledb
    cnct.OledbConnection.BackgroundQuery = False
   end select
Next cnct

As you can see, code above only deals with ODBC and OLE DB. Depending on what types of data connection you are using, you can expand the select case clause. Unless changed, once run, connection's BackgroundQuery will remain off.