MS Access application without Access on client...

[Mr. Smith]

Hi.
I know there is a way of publishing Access application to clients without
Microsoft Access in their Office suite.

Is it Visual Studio 2003 i need to to that?

Mr. Smith

 

[Douglas J Steele]

Tony Toews tries to explain the various products at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionfaq.htm

Assuming you're talking about an Access 2003 application, you need to
purchase the following in order to create an Access 2003 runtime
application:

- Microsoft Access 2003
- Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 (which includes the Access 2003
Developer Extensions)

The ADE is the product that gives you the license to deploy the 2003 runtime
components and you have to have Access 2003 installed in order to install
the ADE.

If you're using MSDN, note that while VSTO is available in all subscription
levels of MSDN, the Access Developer Extensions are not included with all
versions. ADE is only available at Universal level.

The stand-alone VSTO box includes both VSTO and the ADE.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstu­dio/office/officetools.aspx for more
details