Read Access-files

[Magnus Bergh]

Hi. Is there a way to read an Access file without having
a full version off Access? There is a program that allows
you to reed a PowerPoint presentation without having
PowerPoint. Is there a simmulair program for Access?

 

[Guest]

You can try some of the following links that contain applications with which you can view Access apps.

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=3791
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/mdb.html

Hope this helps
Theo

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Any ODBC client should be capable of getting to the data in the database.
Using the forms, reports and code, though, requires Access. Database
applications are far more complicated than PowerPoint presentations or Word
documents, so it's not really possible to make a viewer: it would need to be
almost as sophisticated as the program itself.

There is a royalty-free run-time version of Access available that'll let you
use the application, but not make structural changes to the application, but
you can't just install it and use it to open any database. See what Tony
Toews has at http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionfaq.htm for
more information about this option.