Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Tue Jan 26 10:37:28 CST 2010
That is why we went with the Wise/Sagekey combination. Even with this I do extensive testing every time we build a new installer. Or application sells into a non-technical market so there is not much tolerance for difficult installations. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:40 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003 Thanks William The difficulty when distributing is that you don't get to choose the OS's of the people you distribute to. I need to cover all bases the software's likely to encounter. Andy -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: 26 January 2010 01:05 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003 Andy ...imnsho, anyone running Vista deserves what they get :) ...I'm still on XP with Win 7 on a vhd ...I'm waiting for the SP1 on Win 7 before I get serious about upgrading ...I've run a couple of my major A2k3 apps on it and not noted any problems ...but I've also noted that others here have gotten into Win7 in more depth and there appear to be a number of small gotchas ...another reason to wait for SP1 ...I'm passing A2k7 completely, it's a mess imnsho ...maybe A2k10 but I'm much more interested in VS 2010 as I've noted before. William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:51 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003 > Hi Tony and William > Thanks for your further responses. I'd have to buy Access 2003 (only > have 97, 2000 and 2002), which I can get from Amazon. There is, as > William says, a copy of the "Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003" on > Amazon (in the US not in UK unfortunately but I guess they'd ship). So > this is a possibility. > What > worries me is that this must have been developed before newer versions > of Windows so do you envisage problems on Vista/Windows 7? Any thoughts? > Already done it? > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav > Sent: 25 January 2010 14:32 > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003 > > > Hey Andy > I see William has responed already. I have a machine that has Access97 > and Access2000 installed. I test my Access2003 installs on this machine. > I have never had (as of yet) a problem of installing and uninstalling > the application, running Access97 (yes I still have a couple of > applications in 97) or Access2000.. Also my clients have different > versions of Office/Access on their machines. The only problem I have > run into is you must uninstall with the original install disk (not a > later version, won't work). As I mentioned I don't have Access2007 so > I don't know if a it has a Package Wizard or how it works. > > Andy Lacey wrote: > >>Hi Tony >>That's interesting. My understanding is that Doug and others use >>Sagekey because the MS offerings give problems to pc's where there are >>existing Access installations, ie they interfere with those. Your >>experience is presumably different. >> >>Andy >> >> >>----Original Message----- >>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav >>Sent: 24 January 2010 18:14 >>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>Subject: [AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003 >> >> >>Hey Andy >>I do not currently have Access2007 (recommendation way back from the >>group). I still develop in Access2003 and use the MOA 2003 Developer >>Extensions Package Wizard to distribute my applications. Hate to say >>it but it is pretty cool, Access 2007 should have the same features >>available. Easy to set up, can customize text, colours and graphics >>for the install screens and include a User License Agreement (and it >>looks professional), it is all I basically need. I don't use SageKey etc. etc. >>etc. (thought about it but....). Just a thought. >> >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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