Running an Access 95 application

[Peter de Valen?a via AccessMonster.com]

Hi here,

I have to run an Access 95 application for testing purposes. On my machine
I only have a later version of Access. I don't mind installing Access 95
also, but I was told that this will give conflicts with the later version.
Is this true? Can I expect conflicts? What can I eventually do to prevent
such conflicts?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

AFAIK, you can run Access 95 and other versions of Access on the same
machine without any problems (other than the fact that Access 95 was
probably the worst version of Access ever released...)

Just make sure you install into a separate folder. You might have to
reinstall whatever other version of Access you have if you want it to be
your default: if you do, make sure you don't let Access uninstall previous
versions.

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

You can't do a completely clean install of A95 and A97,
because they both use VBA 5, so those components will
inevitably be updated to the latest version.
Jet version and DAO version are different, and won't
overlap: Don't simultaneously open a file in both A95
and A97, because the two Jet versions are not completely
compatible. apart from that I don't know.

(david)

 

[Peter de Valen?a via AccessMonster.com]

I have Office 2000 on my machine. This implies that I have VBA 6 also. I
assume you mean that VBA 6 will remain intact and that VBA 5 is not
installed? Is VBA 6 downward compatible?

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

VBA 6 and 5 are, as far as I know, completely independent.

VBA is bound in to the parent program. A2000 can't use VBA
5 at all, and A97 can't use VBA 6 at all.

Installing A95 will install VBA 5 if it is not already
installed, which will have no effect at all on A2K and VBA6.

VBA shares components with VB and Windows: A95 running on
Windows XP will not be 'exactly' the same as A95 running
on Windows 95 was. There are some VB files which are
functionally equivalent between VB and VBA (A95 loads the
runtime version if the VB full retail version is not already
loaded), and there are Active X controls like the Graph
Control that are functionally equivalent in different versions,
but there is no direct overlap between VB5 and VB6

(david)

 

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