Access 2003 Developer extensions

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Jason

I saw a link on MS about Access 2003 developer extensions
that include the royalty free run-time. When I clicked on
this I got an error and the page did not load. Does
anyone know about this and possibly how much it cost
compared to buying the Office 2003 Developer edition.
Would love to be able to distribute an application I am
soon going to start working on to collegues without them
having to have Access 2003. I know I can get this via the
Developer edition, but I dont want to have to buy the
whole developer edition for 1 tool.

Jason
 
Jason said:
I saw a link on MS about Access 2003 developer extensions
that include the royalty free run-time. When I clicked on
this I got an error and the page did not load. Does
anyone know about this and possibly how much it cost
compared to buying the Office 2003 Developer edition.
Would love to be able to distribute an application I am
soon going to start working on to collegues without them
having to have Access 2003. I know I can get this via the
Developer edition, but I dont want to have to buy the
whole developer edition for 1 tool.
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I think the Office Developer is essentially the same thing as Office
Professional + the developer extensions. It is probably cheaper to buy the
Developer's edition because you'll be able to find it discounted on line,
whereas the extensions by themselves are not likely to be discounted much if
anything. AFAIK, neither is quite finished although they are probably RTM,
which may be why the link doesn't work yet.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
Hi Jason,

The Access 2003 Developer Extensions are included in Visual Studio Tools for
the Office System. You can find information about VSTO, along with a link to
more detailed information about the Access 2003 Developer Extensions, at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/office/. Pricing information for VSTO is
located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/officetools/.

Just to eliminate any confusion, there is no product called the Office 2003
Developer Edition. If you goal is to distribute an Access based solution to
user who do not have Access 2003 installed on their computer, you would need
to purchase the Office 2003 Professional or Access 2003 and the Visual
Studio Tools for the Office System, which includes the Access 2003 Developer
Extensions and thus, the royalty free licence to distribute the Access 2003
Runtime components.

One of the things that is included in the Access 2003 Developer Extensions
is a Package wizard that you can use to create an MSI based installation
package for deploying your application. The ADE Package wizard is a brand is
a new tool, built from the ground up, targeted in meeting the basic needs
for deploying Access 2003 applications.

In addition to the runtime license and the Package wizard, the ADE includes
a Custom Startup wizard that developers can use to create create production
copies of their databases prior to deployment and a Property Scanner Add-in
that is launched from within you database and can be used to search the
properties of all the Access objects for the criteria you specify.

Regards,
Mike Wachal
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
mike-

i have access 2003, visual studio .net 2003, and the
Microsoft Office Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft
Office System. as I understand it, these should be the
required tools to package and access 2003 application.
unfortunately, i cannot find any documentation or
information in terms of how to do this. not on msdn, not
in the help files, etc. are there options that should
appear on Access menus that did not before? i don't see
any. do i have to manually install an add-in to get this
functionality? please help.
 
ryan m said:
mike-

i have access 2003, visual studio .net 2003, and the
Microsoft Office Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft
Office System. as I understand it, these should be the
required tools to package and access 2003 application.
unfortunately, i cannot find any documentation or
information in terms of how to do this. not on msdn, not
in the help files, etc. are there options that should
appear on Access menus that did not before? i don't see
any. do i have to manually install an add-in to get this
functionality? please help.
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Hi Ryan,

For clarification, you do not need Visual Studio .NET 2003 to package and
deploy an Access 2003 application. What you do need is the the Access 2003
Developer Extensions, which are included as a separate CD in the Visual
Studio Tools for Office System package. Once you install this, you will
have additional tools listed on the Start Menu at All Program | Microsoft
Office | Microsoft Office Access 2003 Developer Extensions. The Package
Wizard is the tool that will help you create an MSI package to deploy your
application.

If you are getting your products from the MSDN Subscription Download site,
the ADE Tools are listed separately under the Applications | Office System
2003 | English node. Hopefully this should clear things up for you.
 
Mike Wachal said:
user who do not have Access 2003 installed on their computer, you would need
to purchase the Office 2003 Professional or Access 2003 and the Visual
Studio Tools for the Office System, which includes the Access 2003 Developer
Extensions and thus, the royalty free licence to distribute the Access 2003
Runtime components.
Click to expand...

Mike

When you state "to purchase the Office 2003 Professional" I presume
you mean to add something like "for each user"

Tony
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