Re: Developing In XP OE then distributing to 98 OE users

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From: Carol King (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:25:37 -0700

Thanks Albert for your reply. That helped me decide to go
ahead an program on the XP machine. I had to move the
packaging to the Access 2002 and XP machine when my users
with XP suddenly started having problems with installation
from the packaging done in Access 2000 on the 98 machine.
All of my users with 98 machines have had no problems with
installing and running the new package. All of the
packages run using runtime. My concern was that by
doing the actual programming on the XP machine (not just
the packaging), I might pull something into the program
from XP that my users with 98 won't have. I guess I'll go
ahead and develop on the XP machine and be careful about
what I'm adding to program, and test it well on 98
machines once it's packaged. Carol

>-----Original Message-----
>"Carol King" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:609b01c48206$cadecbf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>
>> At the advice of a Microsoft technician 4 or 5 years
ago,
>> I have continued to develop my Access program on a
>> Windows 98 machine using Access 2000 developer tools.
>> This was so that I wouldn't include anything that my
>> customers (end users) with Windows 98 didn't have.
>
>Sure, the above makes sense to develop on the same
>platform that you wish to distribute your software.
>
>> I
>> then move it to an XP machine and convert it from Access
>> 2000 to Access 2002 before packaging and distributing.
>
>Oh no!, that is a big mistake. The WHOLE IDEA here is
>to ensure that you crated the package on the SAME
>platform. By moving the software to a new platform,
>and THEN creating the final distribution, you have
>lost all value to the advice given to you! (you are
>now creating the FINAL software for distribution
>on a DIFFERENT platform, and this was
>exactly what the advice was telling you to avoid!).
>
>>
>> I would like to develop on the XP machine instead of the
>> 98 machine, but wonder if anyone has advice about doing
>> that now?
>
>Well, as mentioned, since you actually were building the
>software on the XP box, then the 98 boxes where
>make completely irrelevant in the process. So, you might
>as well develop on the XP box....since all along you
>have been making your software on the xp box anyway!!
>
>
>-
>Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
>Edmonton, Alberta Canada
>pleaseNOOSpamKallal@msn.com
>http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn
>
>
>.
>

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