Microsoft® Access® 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 27. Distributing Your Application

• Using Linked Tables in a Desktop Database

• Understanding Runtime Mode

• Creating a Database Template

• Creating Custom Data Type Parts

• Creating an Execute-Only Database

• Creating an Application Shortcut

• Encrypting Your Database

• Packaging and Signing Your Database

Although you can certainly use Microsoft Access 2010 to create database applications only for your personal use, most serious users of Access 2010 eventually end up building applications to be used by others. If you have created a stand-alone desktop client database application and your users all have the same version of Access installed on their computers, you can simply give them a copy of your database file to run. However, most database applications become ...