Exe version of Access

[Elaine]

I have used Access to develop personal systems in the
past. Is it possible to create an exe version of one of
my systems to install on computers that don't have Access?

 

[Damien McBain]

I have used Access to develop personal systems in the
past. Is it possible to create an exe version of one of
my systems to install on computers that don't have Access?

Hi Elaine,

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...odcore/html/deovrdeployingaccesssolutions.asp
and have a look around.

You can certainly achieve what you want to do.

Damo

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Hi Elaine,

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/modcore/htm
l/deovrdeployingaccesssolutions.asp
and have a look around.

You can certainly achieve what you want to do.

Just recognize that you cannot convert an Access application to an
Executable. What Damien's pointed to is a description of the Office
Developer edition (now the Access Developer Extensions, or ADE, which come
with Visual Studio Tools for Office, or VSTO.)

What you get with the Developer is the right to redistribute a run-time
version of Access. Your users will have to install the run-time, and then
will be able to run your application, but not to make design changes to it
(or any other Access database). Packaging your application together with the
run-time does not change your application in any way, shape or form