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How about buying the Developer Edition? Terry L. Broadbent - Salt Lake City, UT
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Zeroanarchy
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hirenJ, in answer to your question two things you may want to know about the package and development wizard.
1. It is probably easier for you to write a VB app setup than it is to use the p&d wizard. As great as the package is I have not been able to find a useful way of deploying more than just the mdb/mde file in other words if you want to create a shortcut on the screen and say an icon for start menu, a background picture or external apps you want to attach to your program you are going to have problems.
If it is runtime you are actually after it may be easier to just attach that to the cd. (Beware, whilst runtime is availabe on just about any office CD the write to distribute it only come with Developer)
2.The benefits to setting up a VB app setup is that you know the code that is included and what it is doing, where as in the wizard you are liable for any probs with a customers machine if the program #*!@s up.
It should not take you to long to write a piece of code that will copy your files onto the users computer and run the app.
(Runtime allows any person to basicly run an app without having access on there machine. It installs a version to be able to run access apps and thats about it)
Good Luck
Zero.
1. It is probably easier for you to write a VB app setup than it is to use the p&d wizard. As great as the package is I have not been able to find a useful way of deploying more than just the mdb/mde file in other words if you want to create a shortcut on the screen and say an icon for start menu, a background picture or external apps you want to attach to your program you are going to have problems.
If it is runtime you are actually after it may be easier to just attach that to the cd. (Beware, whilst runtime is availabe on just about any office CD the write to distribute it only come with Developer)
2.The benefits to setting up a VB app setup is that you know the code that is included and what it is doing, where as in the wizard you are liable for any probs with a customers machine if the program #*!@s up.
It should not take you to long to write a piece of code that will copy your files onto the users computer and run the app.
(Runtime allows any person to basicly run an app without having access on there machine. It installs a version to be able to run access apps and thats about it)
Good Luck
Zero.
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