[AccessD] Seeking your Access Runtime Experiences

Nicholson, Karen cyx5 at cdc.gov
Tue Mar 1 11:21:50 CST 2005


Most clients own a copy of Access, so the .mde is easier to distribute.
I have to use the runtime for clients in many countries who do not have
Access installed on their system.  I have been using the 2003 runtime
and am happy with it, my users are not experiencing any problems.  I
know that when I test the runtime on my workstation, that has three
versions of Access, that the next time I go to an app, it opens up in
the version of the runtime that I last installed.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:09 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Seeking your Access Runtime Experiences


Hello All,

As you may have seen, I am currently enjoying being up to my elbows in
Access 97, a database with 1000 linked oracle tables and hundreds of
forms, reports, queries, pass through queries, dynamically generated
SQL etc and of course loads of code, no errorhandling and no comments
and no documentation!

A question arose a few days ago about migrating it to Access 2003 and
using the Runtime version.

I have gone online and had a quick read of what is required for
runtime, at its simplest level it seems to be to build a complete GUI,
which I normally do anyway.

The only thing that I usually depend on is the filter by form etc
context menu's.

Have you guys any comments to make on using the runtime?  Rocky, why
did you not use the Runtime for EZ-MRP?  I am guessing that you
evaluated it and found it troublesome.  Is that the case?

In fact, I get the impression that most of us do not use the runtime,
the question I am curious about is why?  It is surely handy to lock
down an app but is it a heavy handed tool?

Thanks all for your advice,

Mark Breen
Ireland
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