[RESOLVED] Deploying App using Access 2003

[Jigabyte]

Hi Peeps,

I have an application in VS2005 which uses an Access 2003 database. I have created a deploy project. My question is do I need an Access 2003 licence for each PC I install my application on?

Thanks for any help,

Jiggy

PS. I don't think I do because I believe all the files required are in the MDAC release which is now part of OS installs.

[MarMan]

No. You only need a license for Access, not the database.

[Jigabyte]

So because my application connets to the access database via oledb I don't need the license only if I put access application on.

[GaryMazzone]

Deploying the Access database to machine does not cost you or the user anything. If the application needs the MS Access application then the end user must pay for MS Access. Since you are not using MS Access, only a database that is in the MS Access format (all access is done though you coded application only) no needs to buy MS Access. Of course if you created the database using MS Access you are required to have bought it.

[Jigabyte]

Thank you both very much!

[dilettante]

Actually this is the "Jet database format."

It just happens that it is used to support both Access and VB, which both "have claims on it."

I suspect its origins predate Access by quite a bit, going back to the ISAM support in the old Microsoft Basic Professional Development System under MS-DOS.

[MarMan]

As far as I know JET was created for Access and wasn't added to VB until VB 3. Jet was the way Access connected to its own DB. Then they modified it so VB can use it. It was a long time ago so my memory may be foggy.