[AccessD] DBRepair (EatBloat+) Was: Re: AccessD Digest, Vol 84, Issue 23

Kenneth Ismert kismert at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 12:38:13 CST 2010


>
> Shamil Salakhetdinov:
> <<<
> This would be an attractive project for me to take on if it would solve
> problems not just for A2K, but for more recent versions as well.
> >>>
> Hi Ken --
> You are welcome to implement this functionality as an Access.PowerTools
> plug-in in one of its future releases if you plan this your tool to be
> shared on MIT license basis...
>

I am happy with the MIT license. I will download PowerTools and give it a
spin. There are a number of functions I would like to see, and this would be
a good vehicle.

And I was unaware that time that solution was much closer - as undocumented
> .SaveAsText feature could have got forms', reports', and macros designs out
> of .mdes: Access.PoweTools can do that now - just a side effect/benefit
> feature of this tool.
>

I just tested SaveAsText on an mde ... it doesn't work. Without researching
it, I recall that any of the VBA IDE methods of trying to get to the code on
an mde will fail, too.

Microsoft has the code in an mde pretty well locked up, but I hear it's not
impossible to reconstruct.

-Ken



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