Run-time Access 2003

[Domac]

Hi,


We are just in final phase of develepment and we are thinking of using
Access 2003 run-time with MDE deployment.
Any suggestions regarding that problem, where to purchase run-time tools??
We want to aviod Access licence on every workstation (40 of them)


Thanks a lot!

Domac

 

[Ken Snell \(MVP\)]

VSTO is the software package that contains the ACCESS runtime packaging
feature.

Runtimes can be very useful. There are a few special features that don't
work in a runtime that will work in a full-blown ACCESS installation (cannot
see Status bars at bottom of forms, cannot write directly to a printer via
VBA code and then print the output, etc.).

Best if you install the runtime as one software on each PC, then install
your .mde as another software on the PC; that way, you can uninstall an .mde
and replace it with an updated .mde by installing the new .mde (without
having to uninstall and then reinstall the runtime). Note that you must
update/patch the runtime on each PC after you install it on that PC -- the
VSTO packaging software will not do this when it creates the runtime files.

 

[Daniel]

Take a look at

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA011208861033.aspx

Daniel

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

We are just in final phase of develepment and we are thinking of using
Access 2003 run-time with MDE deployment.
Any suggestions regarding that problem, where to purchase run-time tools??
We want to aviod Access licence on every workstation (40 of them)

Quite understandable. Note that your power users, who create thier
own queries for export to Excel and such, will want their own full
version of Access.

Microsoft Access (Office) Developer Edition FAQ
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionfaq.htm

Tony
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[Larry Linson]

We are just in final phase of develepment and we
are thinking of using Access 2003 run-time with
MDE deployment. Any suggestions regarding that
problem, where to purchase run-time tools??
We want to aviod Access licence on every
workstation (40 of them)

It's just been announced that the runtime support for Access 2007 will be
included with the product (at least some versions of the product) and not
separately priced, as it has been in the past. My guess is that converting
to Access 2007, waiting for the packaging and availability of the free
runtime, and retesting will far overshadow the cost of the Access 2003
runtime in the Visual Studio Tools for Office.

_Any_ runtime version is likely to include some surprises, which may be
unpleasant ones. It surprises many that some functionality on which they
counted is considered "design-time" function and not available in the
run-time.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP