Access Developer Kit

[Delfzijl]

Has anyone used this package. Would be benificial to someone who is
making alot of applications for his company. Also if I purchase the
access developer kit do I have to have multiple copies of access in order
to run these applications, or does it like create an executable for people
to run?

Thanks

[jwats....@xerox.com]

delf...@aol.com (Delfzijl) wrote:

>Thanks

The ADT is great. It is well worth its money and very beneficial.
The fact that it creates a setup file and gathers all necessary files
is a great time saver. It is also great for new revisions of your
application. The run time version of your program can be distributed
freely and does not require access on the computer. A program group
and icon will be created in windows when the application is installed.
I would definitely recommend it.

Julie

[Keith C. Nolen]

In article <3scbic$d...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, delf...@aol.com (Delfzijl) says:
>
>Has anyone used this package. Would be benificial to someone who is
>making alot of applications for his company. Also if I purchase the
>access developer kit do I have to have multiple copies of access in order
>to run these applications, or does it like create an executable for people
>to run?
>
>Thanks

The ADT does two things, mainly: 1) provides you with a run-time only version
of Access that you can distribute and 2) lets you make setup disks of your
Access application that users can then install like any Windows product. I
think it would be very beneficial to someone developing applications for a
company, because if you just distribute using the ADT your users can't get
into your MDB file -- they can only use it as an application (unless they
go out and buy a copy of Access).

[David L. [Ace] Russell]

Can users of your applications developed with the ADT modify the forms and
reports as in regular Access? What about queries? I read something that
implied Yes and No as answers to the above two questions. It was a comparison
of Access to Visual Basic and suggested using VB if you need programmatic
modification of forms. Any clarifications would be much appreciated.

ace

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[joe...@vnet.net]

In article <3sie7v...@duncan.cs.utk.edu>, <drus...@cs.utk.edu> writes:
> Can users of your applications developed with the ADT modify the forms and
> reports as in regular Access? What about queries? I read something that
> implied Yes and No as answers to the above two questions. It was a
comparison
> of Access to Visual Basic and suggested using VB if you need programmatic
> modification of forms. Any clarifications would be much appreciated.

Users have no access to the database sources at all. There is no "Database
Window", it gets completely hidden from the user while running MSARN200.EXE.
The user can only do what your code lets them do.

Of course, if the user happens to have MS-Access installed on their system
they can open the database file with Access and then can access any object
in the database, but only objects you give them access to. By default, they
would have full access to everything. To control this, you will need
to "implement security" in your database. Easiest way to do that is to
use the Security Wizard available from Microsoft.

Zack Sessions

[Scott Jeffery]

On 22 Jun 1995, Delfzijl wrote:

> Has anyone used this package. Would be benificial to someone who is
> making alot of applications for his company. Also if I purchase the
> access developer kit do I have to have multiple copies of access in order
> to run these applications, or does it like create an executable for people
> to run?
>
> Thanks
>
>

The Access Developers Toolkit is a distribution kit primarily, ie you can
distribute your applications to users who don't have the fully blown
access software. The distributed applications are not an EXE but a
package of EXE's, DLL's, wizards etc.