Lost in a sea of dev ext and runtime

[Question Boy]

I am wanting to try and deploy a simple 2007 db to user without access
installed. I started checking out the developers extensions and then came
across the rutime and am now lost. The user will not need to make any
changes to the database, simply enter data.

Could someone as simply as possible differentiate the 2 products. I checked
MS website and got even more confused the link for runtime talk about dev
ext....

Thank you in advance... Just knowing what I need to use will help me focus
searching properly for info.

QB

 

[George Nicholson]

If you have created Forms or Reports in Access that you want other people to
use, they will need some version of Access installed on their machine in
order to see/use them.

The Developers Extensions allow a developer to legally distribute a
non-royalty Runtime version of Access to users who don't have the full
Retail version. The Runtime includes almost all the functionality of the
full retail version *except* the capabilty to create or modify most objects
(tables, forms, reports, code). Adding/Modifying DATA is fine. Runtime is
intended to allow people to use, but not make changes to, a fully developed
Access application designed by someone else.

The Developer's Extensions include (among other things) the Runtime files,
the (somewhat vaguely) implied license to legally distribute them without
further payment and a Packaging Wizard to assist with deployment of your
application (with or without the Runtime files).

Here are some links that may enlighten or further confuse (concepts remain
the same between versions). Hope they help though.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa167800(office.11).aspx
Basics for Building Microsoft Office Access 2003 Runtime-Based Solutions

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa662934(office.11).aspx
Preparing Your Access 2003 Database for Deployment, Part 2

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionfaq.htm
Microsoft Access (Office) Developer Edition FAQ