[AccessD] MDE to MDB

Bryan Carbonnell Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca
Mon Jan 5 08:46:32 CST 2004


Actually, not entirely True.

Shamil, who I haven't seen on the list in a bit, was able to get the
design elements of an MDE out for me. He was able to get the layout of
the forms and reports. Maybe even the queries, but I don't remeber.

The only thing that he wasnt able to get out was the code, but for me
that didn't matter, since there was virtually none in the MDE.

It was a paid service, that he was starting up, IIRC.

No affiliation other than he saved my butt. :-)

Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca

>>> jimdettman at earthlink.net 05-Jan-04 8:57:59 AM >>>
Vlad,

  Technically it is possible, but no one has bothered to take the time
to
write such a utility because of the amount of time it would take to do
so.
Lacking documentation on the p-code of VBA, it would take a
considerable
amount of time to figure it all out.  It would be far less costly to
simply
rewrite the app.

  Besides which, you'd never get the comments back anyway.  Those are
impossible as they are not saved in a MDE.

Jim Dettman
President,
Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc.
(315) 699-3443
jimdettman at earthlink.net 

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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:47 AM
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Subject: [AccessD] MDE to MDB


Guys,

Is there any method of converting an MDE to an MDB? I have a client
who
employed a developer to create an application for their organisation.
The developer has now disappeared and the app has started to
experience
problems accessing some forms - it just hangs. I obviously can't fix
the
problem if I can't get to the forms to have a look at what might be
causing the issue. The app is a A2K MDE running under a AXP
environment
- I was surprised that it would even run as I thought AXP would only
run
an AXP MDE - learn something everyday. They have been running the app
just fine for months and this has just reared it ugly head.

Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have searched the
archives but no help there...

Thanks
Vlad
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