[AccessD] Front End Updater

Yikes!
I'm certainly glad you don't design software for Microsoft ;-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
GregSmith at starband.net
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:02 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Front End Updater

Arthur:

Why have it check?  If the place you locate the 'most current version'
of your application will always have the newest, just have it
automatically upload a copy to the users every day once...that way they
always have the most current version and you don't have to fret over
time stamps being changed or anything else.

Greg Smith



> I know that this has been kicked around several times in the past, but

> I'd like to know the current thinking on this subject. Given N users 
> on a LAN (and it might be a WAN), we want to place any updates in one 
> standard place (probably using a hardcoded reference to the box and 
> dir)  and then have a mechanism that checks to see if the update is 
> more recent than the version locally loaded.
>
> What puzzles me about this is: given Access's habit of re-timestamping

> the ADP/MDB file upon loading, how do you compare versions to see 
> which is more recent? A laptop user, for example, currently 
> disconnected but going to be connected tomorrow morning, may have a 
> more recent timestamp  on her file than the one on the net. How do you

> get around this problem?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur

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