Access 2003 compiler?

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I recently bought Office Professional Edition 2003 to make forms for a business. It is possible to make these forms into an executable file using what is available in Access? Please don't tell me I wasted over $700!
 
It's never been possible to convert an MDB into an EXE. From what I
understand, it really is impossible.

What you can do, though, is purchase 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. This
will let you distribute your application complete with a royalty-free
runtime version of Access, so that each user doesn't need to purchase
Access.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)


Sugar said:
I recently bought Office Professional Edition 2003 to make forms for a
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business. It is possible to make these forms into an executable file using
what is available in Access? Please don't tell me I wasted over $700!
 
I recently bought Office Professional Edition 2003 to make forms for a
Click to expand...
business. It is possible to make these forms into an executable file using
what is available in Access? Please don't tell me I wasted over $700!

If was going to spend some money some tools, I would certainly spend some
time reading, and learning about those tools.

To make Excel documents...you generally need to purchase Excel, and so do
your users.

To make word documents, you generally need to purchase Word, and so do your
users.

To make ms-access databases, you generally need to purchase ms-access, and
so do your users.

Why would you assume any difference from all of the products in office you
have used?

However, there is a free Word viewer for word, (I think there is one for
Excel;??), and you can export reports from ms-access, and use the snapshot
viewer to view the data.

However, what is quite interesting is there is in fact a developers edition
of office that allows you actually package, and create user installable
ms-access applications. This is rather interesting, since the word, and
excel systems allow you to VIEW data..but not modify it. In the case of
ms-access, your users can in fact modify the data. You can legally
distribution applications this way, and thus ms-access does NOT need to be
already installed on the target pc.

This so called runtime package and deployment system is certainly not a .exe
file. It is in fact a full install of ms-access with all of the design tools
stripped out. The resulting application is thus about 30 megs + your
application size. While some basic menus are provided, you as a general rule
should design and provide your own menu bars..and tools bars if you plan to
use the runtime system. The runtime system and license to distribution
ms-access can be purchased (it is a separate product), and is know as the
office developer extensions.

So, in fact, ms-access is an exception to the rest office in that you can
package and deliver royalty free applications to users, and those users can
even modify data (you can't do that with word, or excel..and you are kind of
lucky that you *can* do this with ms-access).

So, you will need to purchase the developer extensions if your users will
NOT have ms-access already installed.

Just remember, that this install is still ms-access being installed.
 
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