How do I use the Access 2000 runtime?!

[Guest]

I have installed this on my machine and don't know what to run to create my
runtime. The Access 97 runtime was so obvious! Thank you for any help!

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Not sure that's what Maxine's looking for, Graham. I read her post as being
that she purchased Microsoft Office 2000 Developer, and is looking to use it
to package her application with the runtime.

Unfortunately, I've never used MOD to package a runtime application, so all
I can do is suggest she post in one of the Developer newsgroups:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.access.developers.toolkitode
or
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.access.devtoolkits

 

[Graham R Seach]

Maxine,

There are two ways of running in runtime "mode"; both require that you
create a Windows shortcut.

Method 1:
1. Find your database file (the mdb/mde), right-click and select Create
Shortcut.
2. Right-click the newly created shortcut, and select Properties.
3. The Target box will be populated with the path to your mdb/mde. To the
left of this path, enter the path to the runtime exe.
4. Click OK.
5. Double-click the shortcut to launch your database in runtime mode.

Method 2:
1. Find your database file (the mdb/mde), right-click and select Create
Shortcut.
2. Right-click the newly created shortcut, and select Properties.
3. The Target box will be populated with the path to your mdb/mde. To the
left of this path, enter the path to the msaccess.exe.
4. To the right of the database path, add the following command-line switch:
/runtime
5. Click OK.
6. Double-click the shortcut to launch your database in runtime mode.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia

 

[Graham R Seach]

In that case, there's a checkbox on one of the Wizard pages (don't recall
which page), which if checked, allows you to specify the location of the
runtime files to include in the package. When the end-user installs the
package, if they don't already have the runtime installed, the installer
will install it.

It's been a long time since I used the 2000 P&DW, but as I recall, the
checkbox label is something like "Include Access Runtime".

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia

 

[aaron.kempf]

I reccomend just finding the AccessRT.MSI file on the Office 2003
professional disk.. run that; install it-- and you don't have to deal
with any of this other crap.

Microsoft has proven over the past years that they are incapable of
building MANAGEABLE solutions so they can screw themselves

-Aaron