[AccessD] Auto-Update FE Over the Internet?

Well you can download the FrontEnd mdb via XMLHTTP, Inet or URLMON.DLL. 
Choose your poison.
After that it is just manipulating as a disk file.
Oh yes you can also use winHTTP object on Win98 and up

This gives you finer control in a class
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/vb6/inet/adl.shtml

Download files asynchronously with URLMON.DLL

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3. Add a MS Inet control to the form (Inet1)
4. Add a textbox (Text1)
5. Set the textbox Text property to
"http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2003/ga030214.gif"
6. Add a command button (Command1)
7. In the Command1_Click event, add this code

    Dim strURL As String
    Dim bData() As Byte      ' Data variable
    Dim intFile As Integer   ' FreeFile variable
    Dim sFilename As String

    strURL = Text1.Text
    sFilename = "C:\Temp\" & Mid(Text1.Text, InStrRev(Text1.Text, "/") + 1)
    intFile = FreeFile()      ' Set intFile to an unused file.
    ' The result of the OpenURL method goes into the Byte
    ' array, and the Byte array is then saved to disk.
    bData() = Inet1.OpenURL(strURL, icByteArray)
    Open sFilename For Binary Access Write As #intFile
    Put #intFile, , bData()
    Close #intFile

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'This code fires off request to specified WEB page
'returns html, asp, xml, or text page in text string then sent to file 
on disk
'Makes use of the XMLHTTPRequest object contained in msxml.dll.
'Check off Reference to MSXML Version 2.0 3.0
' I am using latest Version of IE5
' should also work with IE5.0 MSXML ver 2.0,2.6, 3.0 etc

'GrabTextFileFromWebSite 
"http://www5.brinkster.com/mconnelly/GenericDB/Excel Redshift.zip"
Public Sub GrabTextFileFromWebSite(strMyURL As String)
  
     'Dim oHttp As Object
     Dim oHttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP40
     Dim strFileName As String
     Dim intfile As Integer
     Dim bData() As Byte
    
    'make use of the XMLHTTPRequest object contained in msxml.dll
    ' Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP40")
    'Set oHttp = GetObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP30")
    'oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", 
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    'oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
    'oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "multipart/form-data"
      
       oHttp.Open "GET", strMyURL, False
      
    ' stick in your web page above , file type can be anything asp txt 
xml html etc.
    'depends partially on content type
    oHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", 
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    oHttp.send
      
     'check the feedback
     Debug.Print "Ready State =" & oHttp.readyState
     'normal state =4
     Debug.Print "Status =" & oHttp.status
     'normal status = 200
     Debug.Print "Status Text =" & oHttp.statusText
    ' Debug.Print oHttp.getAllResponseHeaders()
    'Debug.Print "Response Body =" & oHttp.responseBody
    ' Debug.Print "Response Body =" & StrConv(oHttp.responseBody, vbUnicode)
    'Debug.Print "Response Text =" & oHttp.responseText
    'Parse response text string here or send to file
    'create directory structure if not in existance
   ' CreateDirectoryStruct ("c:\Accesshtmlstealer")
   
    strFileName = "c:\Accesshtmlstealer\Amazon"
    strFileName = strFileName & Format(Now, "yyyymmddhhmmss") & ".txt"
   
    '   WriteFile strFileName, oHttp.responseText
     'Temporary storage
intfile = FreeFile()

' The file will be saved in the temp folder with the name download.zip'
Open "c:\temp\download.zip" For Binary Access Write As #intfile
'Put #intfile, , bData()
bData() = oHttp.responseBody
Put #intfile, , bData()
Close #intfile
   '
        Exit Sub
       
ErrorHandler:
        MsgBox Err.Description & vbCrLf & Err.Number
        '
        Resume Next
   
End Sub


Robert Gracie wrote:

> Has anyone tried this?
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>Robert Gracie
>www.servicexp.com
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada