Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Enterprise Development

The Access Runtime

The royalty-free runtime license provided with MOD enables your users to take advantage of your application and all that it provides without owning their own copy of Access. When running your application with the Access runtime version, your users cannot directly create new database objects. Furthermore, they do not have access to the Database window, built-in toolbars, numerous menu items, and several other features that are part of the full Access product. In many situations, you don't want the user to have access to all these features. Instead, you want to provide your users with a very complete, fully integrated application that only you will be responsible for modifying. Furthermore, you want to provide all this to your ...