Bill Patten
bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Mon Nov 15 17:39:19 CST 2010
?Doug and Mark, I have found that a 2003 MDE will run in Access 2003, 2007 and 2010 but it will not work the other way, a later mde will not run in an older version of Access. Like an MDE compiled (created?) in 2010 will not open in the older versions of access. Bill -------------------------------------------------- From: "Doug Murphy" <dw-murphy at cox.net> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 3:32 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ethical or not... I believe the file format needs to be the same as that of the runtime. We ship a product as an an Access 2002 runtime. The file format is mde. If I work on the project in Access 2003, my prefered version, and make the mde it won't run in the runtime. It has been some time since I worked with this so I may be off base, but I do know every time I update the app. I go back and compact and creat the mde in 2002. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 3:02 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Ethical or not... after a client meeting today, the issue of AC2003 vs. AC2007 came up. Oh, what a mess: they do want to use built-in Access security to control user rights to the tables...which of course is not possible in 2007. So if they purchased 5 individual licences of Access 2007 and then "someone" installed the AC2003 runtime on the network to be downloaded by all 5 license holders, is that fair to Microsoft ? Isn't it obvious that the AC2007 runtime has little value relative to the AC2003 runtime ? -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com