Opinion about Access MDE to MDB Conversion?
http://www.everythingaccess.com/mdeconversion_faqs.htm

Is it to good to be true?

I tought i was impossible to get VBA codes from a MDE file??

What can I do to secure my MDE (MDW file can be crack and read)?



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Jonas

Jonas wrote:
> Opinion about Access MDE to MDB Conversion?
> http://www.everythingaccess.com/mdeconversion_faqs.htm
>
> Is it to good to be true?
>
> I tought i was impossible to get VBA codes from a MDE file??
>
> What can I do to secure my MDE (MDW file can be crack and read)?

I use MDEs to make the file a bit smaller and faster and to protect curious
users from themselves, not to "secure the code". What is in your code that you
think needs to be secured?

In the past the concensus in these groups was always that an MDE to MDB
de-compiler was technically possible, but that no one had bothered to spend the
time to actually build one because there's not much to be gained by having one.
Apparently now a few people have gone to this trouble and hope to make some
money with it. Frankly I hope they have a few other products to lean on as well
because I just don't see that many people spending money on it.

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Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

Le 17 févr. 2008, Rick Brandt wrote:

> I use MDEs to make the file a bit smaller and faster and to protect
> curious users from themselves, not to "secure the code". What is in
> your code that you think needs to be secured?

I don't know, something like a piece of code creating a password for a user
(commercial use of my mde).

> In the past the concensus in these groups was always that an MDE to
> MDB de-compiler was technically possible, but that no one had bothered
> to spend the time to actually build one because there's not much to be
> gained by having one. Apparently now a few people have gone to this
> trouble and hope to make some money with it. Frankly I hope they have
> a few other products to lean on as well because I just don't see that
> many people spending money on it.

OK, thank you for you opinion. By the way, what can I do more for my mde
if I want to commercialize my mde?


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Jonas

Jonas wrote:
> OK, thank you for you opinion. By the way, what can I do more for my
> mde if I want to commercialize my mde?

Frankly Access is not a good platform for commercial apps. By that I am
talking about shrink-wrapped programs that someone buys at a store or
downloads and then installs. If you want a wide target group you have to
use an older version, the runtime is not for the squeamish and often breaks
things on the user's PC, and it has a relatively large resource footprint
for what it does. Just about all of the commercial products I am aware of
that lasted more than a couple of years are utilities and add-ins that
people sell to other Access developers.

Where there is a market is producing solutions for businesses on an
individual contract basis (almost always a customized app) where you can
rely on a reasonably consistent PC setup onto which your product will be
installed. In those cases protecting your program from unauthorized use is
largely a matter of trust as it is for most other software.

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Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com