mde files

[Douglas]

Is it true that when you create an .mde file that nobody
can undo the mde file and get back into your forms? I
hope this is true. Then all I have to worry about is
someone accessing the database tables and queries etc from
another application which I dont think access has a good
system for protection. I am thinking about purchasing a
third party encrypting device for that part but I am
getting off the track. The question here is can anyone
get into the form code of an mde file?

Thank you,

Douglas

 

[Paul Overway]

The answer is no. In respect to protecting tables and queries, you can
implement user level security in Access.

 

[TC]

There is no reason >in principle< why someone could not write a decompiler
for MDE files. But the result would not look anything like the original
sourcecode. It would have no comments, meaningless variable names, & so on.
People have accepted those limitations & written decompilers for other
languages over the years, but no-one has ever done one for Access VBA, as
far as I know.

So you can take it that the answer is yes, no-one can decompile your MDE -
yet!

HTH,
TC