Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
There was most certainly an Office 97 Developer Edition (ODE 97) as well as 2000 (MOD 2000), and XP (MOD XP/2002). There was even Access Developer's Toolkit 7.0 (ADT 7/95) and even earlier.

I guess I was thinking of the Access 2007 Developer Extensions and Runtime which are free.


My point was that Microsoft began to push people away from VBA beginning with Office 2003.


Well I think that's just wrong. Generally you needed the Office Runtime components, which only came as part of the Developer SKUs - at least in ealier versions of Office. Otherwise you might create add-ins or other DLLs, but not stand-alone applications that don't require Office to be installed.
Office has to be installed whether you use an Office Developer product, or automate Office via, say, VB.