Data Access Page Development Question

[Guest]

I have a PC that has an access database file on it that is being read/written
to via 3rd party software. What I want to do is develop a Data Access Page
that can read/write to this file. That's pretty easy, but here is the catch.
The PC itself does not have Microsoft Access installed on it. The file just
sits on the PC and the 3rd party software does the read/writing via setting
up and ODBC Data Server. Can I have a Data Access Page read/write to a table
on a PC when access is not installed on the PC?

 

[Sylvain Lafontaine]

The presence or not of Access - either on the machine where the file is
located or at the client side - is not the catch here. You don't need
Access to the ODBC driver and the Office Web Components can be downloaded
and installed separately on a client machine:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...2C-402E-4F72-97A5-E0FD290D4B76&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...77-2100-4586-A13C-50E56F101720&displaylang=en

The real problem will be the use of the DAP pages themselves: they are easy
to start with but they will rapidly become a pain in the a** for anything
but the simplest things to do and the chances are high that this will be the
case for accessing the database of a 3rd party software.