mde files

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Douglas

Is it true that when you create an .mde file that nobody
can undo the mde file and get back into your forms? I
hope this is true. Then all I have to worry about is
someone accessing the database tables and queries etc from
another application which I dont think access has a good
system for protection. I am thinking about purchasing a
third party encrypting device for that part but I am
getting off the track. The question here is can anyone
get into the form code of an mde file?

Thank you,

Douglas
 
The answer is no. In respect to protecting tables and queries, you can
implement user level security in Access.
 
There is no reason >in principle< why someone could not write a decompiler
for MDE files. But the result would not look anything like the original
sourcecode. It would have no comments, meaningless variable names, & so on.
People have accepted those limitations & written decompilers for other
languages over the years, but no-one has ever done one for Access VBA, as
far as I know.

So you can take it that the answer is yes, no-one can decompile your MDE -
yet!

HTH,
TC
 
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