Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Second Edition

Chapter 37. Distributing Your Application with ODE

• Distributing Your Application: An Introduction

• Looking At the ODE

• Distributing Your Application to Run with a Full Copy of Access

• Using Full Versions versus Runtime Versions of Access

• Preparing Your Database for Use with the Access Runtime Version

• Looking At Other Issues

• Practical Examples: Distributing the Time and Billing Application

Distributing Your Application: An Introduction

Many developers are responsible for designing applications that will be distributed to many users. The most basic distribution option is to require each user to purchase a copy of Access and then simply provide each user with a copy of the database (MDB) files required for the application. The developer then can go to each ...