Re: Distributing a prog

From: John Nurick (j.mapSoN.nurick_at_dial.pipex.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:46:55 +0100

If they don't already have Access at home, there's no simple way. The
choices are

1) Create the program some other way (e.g. in Visual Basic)

2) Install Access on the home computers. Each version of Access has a
corresponding "run-time" version which is supplied with the "developer"
edition of Microsoft Office. If you have the developer edition you can
create CDs containing your application along with the run-time version
of Access so it can be installed on computers that don't already have
the full version.

Unfortunately the developer edition of Office 2000 is (as far as I know)
no longer available from Microsoft, so you'd need to either buy a copy
elsewhere or upgrade to Access 2003. For Access 2003, the run-time
version is included with the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft
Office System.

A further complication is that it is notoriously difficult to set up the
installation system so that your application and the Access run-time
will install smoothly and reliably on home computers which may have many
different combinations of versions of Windows, Office and their service
packs and other updates.

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:19:02 -0400, "-z" <Hitharneighbor@ihatespam.com>
wrote:

>I use A2K
>
>What would be the simplest way to give a small Access prog to students to
>use as a study help in a subject if they didn't have Access at home?
>
>Thank you
> 

--
John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]
Please respond in the newgroup and not by email.

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