Need Help with VB and MS Access compiling

[tensai]

Hello,

I'm still new with VB (compiling part) and I was hoping if someone could help me... I already made my program with MS Access as my database and added the report thingy in VB.. I was hoping if someone could help me on how to compile this into a single .EXE file so that others can install my program into their system and run my program even without having VB 6.0 and MS Access installed in their system... Is this possible or not?!? I really do hope someone could help me with this.. thanx... x^_^

P.S the only thing I know is saving it as .EXE project at the File menu.. But it does not work on computers without VB6.0 installed...

[randem]

You can your app on a system without VB or Access installed (This is the preferred method). You first need to create an installation package using possibly one of the packages described in the FAQ's for this forum (First thread).

[RobDog888]

If your program only uses the Access database as a back end and never displays any of the Access db GUI or objects then packaging the app into a setup.exe is possible with many of the packagers that Randem pointed you to.

If you are displaying the Access GUI/Objects then your end user will be required to have their own licensed version of Access. You can not distribute the program Access itself or any of its supported runtime files, only the .mdb, .mde and adp files only.

[tensai]

I see... So it is possible... x^_^ I will try to use the packagers that you had mentioned... will post more info soon. Thanks for the big help...