I needed to deploy access mde files.
I have developed the mde with access 2000
I have packaged it using the "Pakaging Wizard" included in Office XP Developer
I have installed the package i made in a PC ALREADY having a full access version installed on (access 2000)
If i run the mde i have just installed, using the link made by the installer (that is, running it with "-runtime" option) the mde correctly starts in runtime-mode. That is good.
Now, if i click on another mde/mdb file it starts in runtime-mode too!!!
That is not good because i can't oblige people to open all their applications in runtime-mode after having installed my application, i only want MY application to be opened in runtime-mode, the other applications previously created in that pc should be regularly opened in "full access"-mode.
The only solution i have found is to open the PROGRAM access (from start/programs/.... doing so "full access" seems to be reinstalled) and then, if i open a mdb/mde file it starts again in "full access" mode. But this is not a good solution at all!
Does anybody knows a solution?
... should i have to change some reg.Key when closing my application so that the extension mde/mdb returns to "full access"? (i must notice that looking in the registry keys it seems that the extensions mdb/mde remain associated to the "full access" so i don't understand why the files are opened in runtime-mode also if they are not opened with the -runtime option...., but i don't know the registry very well....)
I have developed the mde with access 2000
I have packaged it using the "Pakaging Wizard" included in Office XP Developer
I have installed the package i made in a PC ALREADY having a full access version installed on (access 2000)
If i run the mde i have just installed, using the link made by the installer (that is, running it with "-runtime" option) the mde correctly starts in runtime-mode. That is good.
Now, if i click on another mde/mdb file it starts in runtime-mode too!!!
That is not good because i can't oblige people to open all their applications in runtime-mode after having installed my application, i only want MY application to be opened in runtime-mode, the other applications previously created in that pc should be regularly opened in "full access"-mode.
The only solution i have found is to open the PROGRAM access (from start/programs/.... doing so "full access" seems to be reinstalled) and then, if i open a mdb/mde file it starts again in "full access" mode. But this is not a good solution at all!
Does anybody knows a solution?
... should i have to change some reg.Key when closing my application so that the extension mde/mdb returns to "full access"? (i must notice that looking in the registry keys it seems that the extensions mdb/mde remain associated to the "full access" so i don't understand why the files are opened in runtime-mode also if they are not opened with the -runtime option...., but i don't know the registry very well....)