[AccessD] Decompile

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu Aug 21 09:54:04 CDT 2003


JohnsComputerHasMeltedDown.

There, now whenever your computer melts down, just put that into the search
in the archives and you'll get this post! <grin>

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:13 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile


Way cool!  Too bad I'll never be able to find that again the next time my
computer melts down and I have to rebuild it.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Susan Geller
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:58 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile


Thanks Charlotte and Stuart. I had the right idea but had done a couple
of things slightly wrong -- no room for errors!  So, the upshot is that
it is possible to decompile an ADP file!

--Susan


-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Sanders [mailto:stuart at pacific.net.hk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:48 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile


Thinking about this I thought of a cool (in my view) way of handling
this, that is probably what Susan was talking about.  Now I'm wondering
why I didn't do this years ago.

1. Start Windows Explorer,
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options...
3. Click on the File Types Tab
4. Find the MDB file type
5. Click Advanced
6. Chances are there are 2 options.  Open in bold font (denoting
default)
   and New.  You can pretty much add what you want here.  For decompile,
7. Click New 8. Under action type Decompile 9. Under Application used to
perform action type the equivalent for your
   install:
  "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile
"%1" 10 Click OK and exit out

And wallah!  You now right click an mdb and have the context option of
decompiling it.

But it doesn't stop there.  For those of us juggling multiple versions
of Access you can setup a right click option to open in each. Eg Open in
97 Open in 2000 Open in XP

And make sure the path points to the correct version of access.

Cheers

Stuart



> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
> Foust
> Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 5:51 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile
>
>
> I have Send To shortcuts on my WinXP box, if that's what you're
> talking about.  The path you show isn't the default for Office XP, so
> is that the actual syntax or an approximation?  In WinXP, the sendto
> shortcuts are in the SendTo folder under your profile in Documents and

> Settings. Mine looks like this:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE"  "%1"
> /decompile
>
> Charlotte Foust
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Geller [mailto:sgeller at cce.umn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:40 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] Decompile
>
>
> I have Windows XP, Access XP and I'm trying to decompile my ADP file.
>
> I had this set up on another computer, but that was Windows 2000.  I
> did this using this type of syntax
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" /decompile
> "%1"
>
> In such a way that when I right clicked on a file, I had the option to

> decompile.
>
> I followed the same instructions on this computer and there is no
> right click option when I clicked on mdb or adp files.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --Susan
>
> Susan B. Geller
> Office of Information Systems
> College of Continuing Education
> University of Minnesota
> 306 Wesbrook Hall
> 77 Pleasant Street SE
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> Phone:  612-626-4785
> Fax:  612-625-2568
>
>
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