Compile Access possible?

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Walt Smith

How can you compile an access program?

Is it included with the product, or do you need to buy seperately?
 
If you are wondering how to compile an EXE from an MDB...you can't.
However, you can compile your MDB to an MDE by selecting Tools|Database
Utilities|Make MDE file. If you plan to distribute your app to users that
do not have Access, you'll need Office Developer Edition, or if you have
Access 2003, you'll need Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 (which includes
the Access 2003 Developer Extensions). This will allow you distribute the
Access runtime with your app.
 
How can you compile an access program?
No.

Is it included with the product, or do you need to buy seperately?
Click to expand...

What you CAN purchase is the appropriate version of the Developer's
Edition. Microsoft keeps changing the name of this product - for
2000/2002 it was the Office Developers' Edition, now it seems to be
the Visual Studio Developer Tools. This does not let you compile a
..mdb file into an executable, but it *does* provide a royalty-free
"runtime" version of Access which you can distribute with your
database.
 
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