Run-Time Access and Office Developer's Edition

[Steven Wong]

Hi there!

Could someone please provide some advice how I need to
approach this?

I will need to be provide support to a run-time Access
Project application developed by an outside consultant.
This application was created and compiled using the XP
Developer's Edition.

My questions are as follows:
1) What O/S and MS Office versions do the client PC need
to have? I am concern about the compatibility of run-time
version of Access Project running on a client's PC with
different Office Suite installed. I have read about
problems with run-time of Access Project (created using XP
2002 Developer's Edition) loaded on a PC with Access 2000.

2) Are there different versions of run-time Access Project
and how are they corresponded to the developer's edition
which create them? The latest office developer's edition
I hear is "Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003", and prior
to that would be XP Developer's Edition and Office 2000
Developer's Edition.

3) Regarding maintenance and deployment of run-time
version of Access or Access Projects...is it efficient? is
it secure or protected?

Thanks in advance.
..

 

[Vadim Rapp]

SW> I will need to be provide support to a run-time
SW> Access Project application developed by an outside
SW> consultant. This application was created and
SW> compiled using the XP Developer's Edition.

SW> My questions are as follows:
SW> 1) What O/S and MS Office versions do the client
SW> PC need to have?

as for O/S, same as Office XP. Office is not needed at the client PC, that's
the whole point of Runtime Access.

SW> I am concern about the
SW> compatibility of run-time version of Access
SW>
SW> Project running on a client's PC with different
SW> Office Suite
SW> installed. I have read about
SW> problems with run-time of Access
SW> Project (created
SW> using XP 2002 Developer's Edition) loaded on a PC
SW>
SW> with Access 2000.

All you need to do is to make sure that runtime access executable is being
launched. You can achieve that with the right shortcut specification, i.e.
not just the myproject.adp or ade, but "msaccess.exe myproject.adp"


SW> 2) Are there different versions of run-time
SW> Access
SW> Project and how are they corresponded to the
SW> developer's
SW> edition which create them? The latest
SW> office developer's edition I
SW> hear is "Visual
SW> Studio Tools for Office 2003", and prior to that
SW>
SW> would be XP Developer's Edition and Office 2000
SW> Developer's
SW> Edition.

Does not really matter, to my knowledge. The version of Access running the
project is what matters.

SW> 3) Regarding maintenance and deployment of
SW> run-time
SW> version of Access or Access Projects...is
SW> it efficient? is it secure
SW> or protected?

that really depends on compared to what...

Vadim