MDE will not open.

[Guest]

I created an MDE file to put on the web. It is located at
http://www.horseshowscentral.com. I created this in Access 2003. It opens and
rusn fine on my home computer. However, when I try and open it up on my
computer at work I get an unrecognized database format error. My place of
work is still on Access 97 which I suspect is the reason. I thought that an
mde file was self contained and didn't need Access to run. How does the user
get around this problem?

 

[Duane Hookom]

An MDE still needs Access to run. You can't run an Access 2003 (or 2000 or
XP) MDE in Access 97.

 

[Guest]

Is there another way to create an Access database that doesn't need Access to
run?

 

[Alex Dybenko]

No, in any case you need an access, retail or runtime, to run mdb or mde

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[Guest]

What do you mean by runtime? And where can I get one?

 

[Tim Ferguson]

Is there another way to create an Access database that doesn't need
Access to run?

If you are putting this thing on a web server, then you can always do it
the 'proper" way: get the web server itself to do the database lookup and
make up a proper html page/ form and send that to a html client.

Any number of packages will do that as long as you have a Windows-hosted
server: since you are using ASP anyway, that will work nicely.

Hope that helps


Tim F

 

[Alex Dybenko]

this is a version of access, which you can install on your users computers,
it can only run applications, you can not do any design changes

For Access 2003 it is called Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office
System, see details here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/technologyinfo/devtools/default.aspx
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