Access Developer Extensions and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition

[servoss]

I have developed an Access mdb file with lots of tables, forms, queries, reports, and VBA code. I want to be able to distribute this to Access-less users. I understand that the Access Developer Extensions enable this to be done and that the two wizards assist.

My first question is this: Are the Access Developer Extensions and the two wizards included in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition?

I ask because this is what was recommended by a Microsoft representative and is what I’ve purchased. This came along with something called MSDN Library, but I’m not sure what that allows me so it is possible that this library will contain the elements that I’m searching for, but so far I’ve not found it.

Are the Access Developer Extensions only provided as part of the Visual Studio for Microsoft Office Tool package, as I’ve seen referenced in several forums and articles, including yours, or are these in fact part of other tools, such as the Professional Edition of Visual Studio that I’ve purchased?

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[servoss]

There may be another way...

I've been poking around a bit in the Visual Studio Professional Edition and noticed that one can import, or link, to an Access database and then use the tables and queries as objects in the project being built. And, there are example reports to follow as templates. It seems as though these combined would allow one to rebuild the entire mdb set of forms, reports, etc. However, this seems like a tremendous amount of work - and would be ridiculous for more complex mdb files.

Any comments?

Tom

 

[Wizzard]

Hi servoss,

My first question is this: Are the Access Developer Extensions and the two wizards included in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition?

see the link Obtain and deploy the Access 2003 runtime it is this that allows you to deploy and licence the runtime. I think in VS2005 Pro you get VSTO see here It's not very clear I know, but on the down load for VSTOse its says its free for VS2005pro users, if I were you I'd contact Microsoft support/licensing and see if they can throw any light on it. PS I cant see Access Developer extension in VSTO but on MSDN download (Subsciption) it is a seperate download.

Wizzard <|

 

[Wizzard]

see also this Compare MSDN Subscriptions matrix which shows "Access Developer Extensions" as being included with VS2005pro but this matrix shows only VSTO as having the licence???