another easy access 2000 question- can make an executable?

[Guest]

I need to make a simple app in access 2000 so users can look up info in an
access table. But not all users have accesss 2000 liscences and therefore do
not have access 2000 installed on their computers. Can I make an exe so they
do need access installed?

 

[MacDermott]

The simple answer is no, you can't make a free-standing .exe out of an .mdb
file, the way you can if you're using Visual Basic, for example.

If you purchase the Developer's Edition, you can distribute a Run-time
version of Access along with your .mdb file. This is much like the full
version, but some parts (design changes) are disabled. Your users will
still need to install this run-time version before they can open your .mdb
file.

If you've programmed in Visual Basic, or other similar applications, you'll
find you can use any of these to write a little program which will simply
read data out of an Access database.

HTH
- Turtle