Access 2002 to Access 2003

[A441OTA]

Good morning one and all!

I have been informed by our systems folks that they will be migrating all users to Office 2003 in the next couple of months. Yesterday I did some research and first off can't figure out why they feel it necessary to waste their money (the new features will not be used here!!!). Anyway, regardless of my opinion on that matter... I have a VB 6.0 application that uses Access 2002 as a backend (basically just as storage -- no queries or macros). Everything that I can find leaves me no indication of any issues with connecting to the new version (2003), it seems the Jet Engine is still 4.0.

Has anyone had to deal with this yet? If so, what issues should I expect, if any? All the technical articles I can find involving Access 2003 and VB are based on using VB.Net.

I personally am more worried about all the mail merges and reports I have automated through VB to Word, but the systems folks are more worried about my use of Access (which they hate, but I was stuck with Access by the client! Eventually I will move the application to Oracle when it gets bigger and more complicated)

Thanks for any thoughts and/or suggestions.

Mary

[Ecniv]

I asked what the differences were between the versions in another post. There don't appear to be any apart from graphically, so issues with office 2003 and vb .. dunno. Best thing is get your hands on it a month before (data security / program working etc) and try it out. I think there won't be any problems though ...

Post up if there are, I'd like to know before I start developing in it

Vince

[A441OTA]

Thanks Vince!

I will keep everyone posted and will watch for other postings in the meantime!

I have a request to systems that I receive a copy of Office 2003 at least a month prior to the users receiving it.