MDE will not open.

S

SHIPP

I created an MDE file to put on the web. It is located at
http://www.horseshowscentral.com. I created this in Access 2003. It opens and
rusn fine on my home computer. However, when I try and open it up on my
computer at work I get an unrecognized database format error. My place of
work is still on Access 97 which I suspect is the reason. I thought that an
mde file was self contained and didn't need Access to run. How does the user
get around this problem?
 
D

Duane Hookom

An MDE still needs Access to run. You can't run an Access 2003 (or 2000 or
XP) MDE in Access 97.
 
T

Tim Ferguson

Is there another way to create an Access database that doesn't need
Access to run?
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If you are putting this thing on a web server, then you can always do it
the 'proper" way: get the web server itself to do the database lookup and
make up a proper html page/ form and send that to a html client.

Any number of packages will do that as long as you have a Windows-hosted
server: since you are using ASP anyway, that will work nicely.

Hope that helps


Tim F
 
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