[AccessD] Seeking your Access Runtime Experiences

Just wondering if anyone has used the .msi file install with SageKey 
rather than Wise or Install Shield
and if there any drawbacks.

Mark Breen wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>As you may have seen, I am currently enjoying being up to my elbows in
>Access 97, a database with 1000 linked oracle tables and hundreds of
>forms, reports, queries, pass through queries, dynamically generated
>SQL etc and of course loads of code, no errorhandling and no comments
>and no documentation!
>
>A question arose a few days ago about migrating it to Access 2003 and
>using the Runtime version.
>
>I have gone online and had a quick read of what is required for
>runtime, at its simplest level it seems to be to build a complete GUI,
>which I normally do anyway.
>
>The only thing that I usually depend on is the filter by form etc
>context menu's.
>
>Have you guys any comments to make on using the runtime?  Rocky, why
>did you not use the Runtime for EZ-MRP?  I am guessing that you
>evaluated it and found it troublesome.  Is that the case?
>
>In fact, I get the impression that most of us do not use the runtime,
>the question I am curious about is why?  It is surely handy to lock
>down an app but is it a heavy handed tool?
>
>Thanks all for your advice,
>
>Mark Breen
>Ireland
>  
>

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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada