Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Sat May 31 17:15:02 CDT 2003
I have only created two installations with the Developer stuff, and neither needed any fancy DLL installs or anything outside Access, but the rest was relatively simple, including installing MSDE and then restoring a database to said installation. The code to restore the db took the longest time of all the processes, but it ended up at about 50 lines of code. Sage and Wise doubtless have their place, but if you're not calling DLLs etc. I frankly don't see the need for them. The built-in stuff does everything I needed: create a directory, copy everything required into it, create a setup program that installs everything in the user-selected directory, then run a program (in my case a batch file) to do everything else that's necessary. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: May 31, 2003 4:41 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT Even a vb or C++ app has to store the data somewhere. Is that going to be an mdb? If so Jet has to be installed. As another lister said, a "slap a CD in and install" is possible, and it will NOT interfere with any other versions, if you use the sagekey etc stuff. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Paul Black Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:00 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT Hi I submitted a proposal to a client this week for a custom application. Their nose is a bit bent out of shape because they feel they should be able to slap a CD in the drive click the install button and the app will install in a nice self-contained thing-a-ma-bob (that is what they said). Why do we have to have MS Access installed? You don't, I said, I can supply a runtime version. Why do we have to worry about what version of MS Access is installed already? We did not ask for MS Access, we asked for a custom computer application. Why do we have to worry about installing a runtime version on a machine with Access already on it and causing all kinds of problems (paraphrased)? Plain and simple they want an app that is a DBS management system but they want something that is completely autonomous. What do I do? What would you do? I may have already lost this deal but need to prepare for the next time this happens. Do I offer a solution that is all VB or C++ or some such thing or am I missing the boat here. Please help. Thanks PB _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ 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