Distributing a prog

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I use A2K

What would be the simplest way to give a small Access prog to students to
use as a study help in a subject if they didn't have Access at home?

Thank you
 
J

John Nurick

If they don't already have Access at home, there's no simple way. The
choices are

1) Create the program some other way (e.g. in Visual Basic)

2) Install Access on the home computers. Each version of Access has a
corresponding "run-time" version which is supplied with the "developer"
edition of Microsoft Office. If you have the developer edition you can
create CDs containing your application along with the run-time version
of Access so it can be installed on computers that don't already have
the full version.

Unfortunately the developer edition of Office 2000 is (as far as I know)
no longer available from Microsoft, so you'd need to either buy a copy
elsewhere or upgrade to Access 2003. For Access 2003, the run-time
version is included with the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft
Office System.

A further complication is that it is notoriously difficult to set up the
installation system so that your application and the Access run-time
will install smoothly and reliably on home computers which may have many
different combinations of versions of Windows, Office and their service
packs and other updates.
 
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What I feared

With VB, would you suggest a form that "plugs" into Access?

Thank you...
 
J

John Nurick

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a form that 'plugs' into Access",
but it would be possible to create a VB application that accessed and
manipulated the data in your existing .mdb file. You could use the
tables and some of the queries (those that don't contain VBA functions),
but all the user interface and functionality would have to be re-created
using VB's tools.

What I feared

With VB, would you suggest a form that "plugs" into Access?

Thank you...
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You got my meaning

I plan, I think, just to offer the prog to those who have A2K or greater

I've tried to do what I want with VB, but never could pull it off

Access in many ways easily does what I want

Thank you

John Nurick said:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a form that 'plugs' into Access",
but it would be possible to create a VB application that accessed and
manipulated the data in your existing .mdb file. You could use the
tables and some of the queries (those that don't contain VBA functions),
but all the user interface and functionality would have to be re-created
using VB's tools.
Click to expand...
 
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