Distributing an application (ACCESS 2000)

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L Mehl - 28 Nov 2005 02:05 GMT

Hello --

I will distribute my first application.

My understanding of what I need is:
- Split app into FE and BE
- Use http://www.mvps.org/access/tables/tbl0009.htm to re-link on each run
of app
- Create MDE
- Use Developer Edition to distribute Access Runtime files
- Use http://www.sagekey.com/ as install package to avoid conflict with
installed versions of Access

Are there other things to do?

Other questions:

Doug Steele said in response to questions posted by jptpjs on 10/3/05:

> MDE the FE for code security

"Usually a good idea"
what other options do I have to protect the intellectual property
represented by the code.

Can readers suggest how to install the BE database in a specific directory?
Is that handled by the Developer Edition tools or install package?

Can readers suggest the best source for a clear explanation of how to use
Developer Edition?

Since an exe is not created for this distribution package, I assume
InnoSetup can't be used. Is this correct?

Thanks for any further help.

Larry Mehl

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Alex Dybenko - 28 Nov 2005 09:27 GMT

Hi,
if you are planning to use Sagekey scripts - you can easy modify their
scripts to install BE into separate directory, but personally i do not
include BE into setup, but just ask some experinced user to copy it manually
once, just afraid that it could be overwrited. BTW - it is also good idea to
add some code to perform daily backups:
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/07/how-to-perform-daily-backups.html

InnoSetup you can also use, but perhaps you need to make your own script for
it:
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/04/free-script-to-build-access-runtime.html

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L Mehl - 28 Nov 2005 22:34 GMT

Alex --

Thank you for the suggestions.

Larry

> Hi,
> if you are planning to use Sagekey scripts - you can easy modify their
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> InnoSetup you can also use, but perhaps you need to make your own script for
> it:

http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/04/free-script-to-build-access-runtime.html

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> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
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davidp - 21 Dec 2005 16:21 GMT

Another thing that you may want to do is to disable the shift key.
This will prevent other user to get to the forms/reports etc.

You may also want to include hiden command that will allow you to enable the
shift key. Incase you accidently lock yourself out.

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