[AccessD] Issues with running applications in 64 bit version of Office

Doug Murphy dw-murphy at cox.net
Fri Jan 27 13:46:25 CST 2012


Actually I was hoping that some smart person could give me a universal
approach. 


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Issues with running applications in 64 bit version of
Office

So did you want to check for the version of Windows that's running on the
machine and branch your code accordingly?

Charlotte Foust

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Doug Murphy <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote:

>
> I have used a slightly modified version of the relinking code from the 
> Access Developers Handbook for many years. I liked using it as it 
> didn't depend on the Office Dialogs so could be used in runtime 
> versions on computers without Office installed. I dropped the code 
> modules into a customer's application as usual when we split their 
> database and all was well. Until they tried running the application on 
> a computer with Office 10
> 64 bit. Code breaks on the 32 bit api calls. Not good.
>
> Has anyone run into this and figured out how to work with both 32 bit 
> and
> 64
> bit versions of Access? For the short term I am going to use the 
> Office dialogs, but would prefer to use the Windows api.
>
> Doug
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