VSTO, presto!

Questions:

1) For VSTO, does the customer require to install VS2005? I’ve looked at the website and it does not seems like they need to buy VS2005

2) Let’s say an apps is using Access runtime. Can the user of the apps input in data through the apps to update the Access runtime? What is the difference (limitation) in using Access Runtime compared with Access?

 

Answers:

1) VSTO is one of the Visual Studio 2005 products, it supports VB.net & C# programming languages for building windows & web application.

2) Based on this article, demonstrates how to automate the Microsoft Access, it provides an code sample how to show and edit an Access form

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/317113/en-us(in VB.net)

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/317114/en-us (C#)

3) The difference between Access Runtime and Access (Access here means retail?, if yes, here is an article summarize the differences: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/208730/en-us )

Difference between Access and the Access Runtime

https://www.poplarware.com/accessruntime.html

Here is a guide how to create a distributable Access run-time application by using Microsoft Office Access 2003 Developer Extensions:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/842004/en-us

You cannot run the Visual Basic for Applications code in your Microsoft Access 2000 run-time application if you removed Microsoft Office Access 2003 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/317114/en-us

More information on Access can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/164109/en-us