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William Benson

I have Office 2003 Professional and Office 97 Professional retail versions.
I do not have Visual Studios, and certainly not a MSDN subscription. I have
never made any money writing programs and want to start. I need the CHEAPEST
way to be able to develop for other users who MAY NOT have access licenses.
I assume if they do, I can give them standalones, but if they do not, I need
to build Runtime versions?

That said, if I have very low funds, what is the cheapest way to solve the
problem of no developer toolkits? Visual Tools for Microsoft Office has
them, but has a LOT of other stuff I do not need and can't cost justify. Am
I out of luck? Any cheap sources? I will never, ever work with stuff I have
not paid for, but finding out a cheaper way to get things is fine by me.
Feel free to e-mail me privately on this:

(e-mail address removed)-oh-M

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it (in advance)!

Bill
 
Visual Tools contains only one item of any value and that is the right to
distribute your applications with the Access Runtime.

You do not need the "tools" to develop applications and there are freeware
installation and setup programs that beat the PDW. (Package Deployment
Wizard)
 
IOW Develop your applications and when you are ready to distrubute them you
can buy the licence.
 
Anyone know a cheap way to buy developer tools, is there a marketplace where
people sell software secondhand?

What is IOW?

I would like to begin creating runtime only versions so I know how they
work, have never seen them in action.

Are there alternatives to Visual Tools for Access 2003? I have not heard of
Access 2003 Developer edition.

I will look for 3rd party PDWs but also, if anyone has a recommendation that
would be aappreciated!

Bill
 
There is NO difference between the retail and the runtime except that the
design surfaces are unavailable in the runtime.

No doubt someone can point you at a microsoft reference which details the
differences.

Use the /runtime switch on the command line and you can see them in action
right now.

IOW (in other words)

There are no "tools" you _need_ to develop an Access application other than
Access.

You will NEED to purchase Visual Tools or join MDSN Universal to get the
licence to distribute the runtime.

As you NEED to get Visual Tools you will get the PDW so you can check it out
before looking for other tools (MS produce IExpress which I believe is free,
not sure about that but it is essentially a wrapper for MakeCAB).
 
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