Microsoft Office® Access 2007 Inside Out

Chapter 25. Distributing Your Application

Using Linked Tables in a Desktop Database

Understanding Runtime Mode

Creating an Execute-Only Database

Creating an Application Shortcut

Encrypting Your Database

Packaging and Signing Your Database

Understanding the Access 2007 Developer Extensions and Runtime

Although you can certainly use Microsoft Office Access 2007 to create database applications only for your personal use, most serious users of Office Access 2007 eventually end up building applications to be used by others. If you have created a stand-alone desktop 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 ...