I have used Sagekey to distribute my Access apps for over 10 years. Creating a distributable exe was easy to set up and once set up never had to change. Creating a new distributable exe for an update app was one button click. It took care of trusted locations and created desktop icons. Support was very good when any questions came up. Unfortunately Sagekey is now defunct.
My applications, currently written in 32-bit Access 2013, are split into FE and BE. I include the FE accde, Access runtime and dsktop icon in the distirbution. My FE has error handling logic in all of the modules.
As an alternate to Sagekey, I first purchased SSE Installer but support was very poor. My bad in not noticing that the included documentation clearly states that questions to support may or may not be answered. When my questions were answered it was usually, 'have you read the documentation'? There were options in the set up defined as configurable but when I ran into problems configuring them the support answer was 'don't change it from the default'. I eventually created a distributable which had unexpected issues when trying to install on the client computer. I posted a question with the error mesage and complete install scenartio which resulted in no answer at all. I would not recomend this product. I wasn't using the free version, I had paid the fullpurchase price. Money and time down the drain.
I did a search in Access World and saw some comment related to alternate installers. One post mentioned using 'Visual Installer Pro'. However, when I looked at the site I didn't see any direct examples for Access. Does anyoe have more information on how to create an MS Access distributable using 'Visual Installer'?
I'm wondering what other Access developers are using to create a distribution package. Any help is appreciated.
My applications, currently written in 32-bit Access 2013, are split into FE and BE. I include the FE accde, Access runtime and dsktop icon in the distirbution. My FE has error handling logic in all of the modules.
As an alternate to Sagekey, I first purchased SSE Installer but support was very poor. My bad in not noticing that the included documentation clearly states that questions to support may or may not be answered. When my questions were answered it was usually, 'have you read the documentation'? There were options in the set up defined as configurable but when I ran into problems configuring them the support answer was 'don't change it from the default'. I eventually created a distributable which had unexpected issues when trying to install on the client computer. I posted a question with the error mesage and complete install scenartio which resulted in no answer at all. I would not recomend this product. I wasn't using the free version, I had paid the fullpurchase price. Money and time down the drain.
I did a search in Access World and saw some comment related to alternate installers. One post mentioned using 'Visual Installer Pro'. However, when I looked at the site I didn't see any direct examples for Access. Does anyoe have more information on how to create an MS Access distributable using 'Visual Installer'?
I'm wondering what other Access developers are using to create a distribution package. Any help is appreciated.
