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Deployment

You've written your application, tested it, and it's time to get it out to your users. If the application you're deploying is within an organization, this might be as simple as copying it to a network share. Off-the-shelf applications, however, may have additional requirements. For example, do you take steps to try and prevent piracy? Do you require a registration process or provide a limited-use application?

Regardless of how your application is distributed, you may still have additional runtime requirements such as an external database server. Issues such as these are problems to solve as part of deployment because that's when problems may occur.

This tutorial covers the following:

  • Creating a build process for Access-based applications
  • Ensuring that application dependencies are taken care of
  • Updating an application
  • Licensing and registration

In this tutorial:

  1. Creating an Automated Build
  2. Design the Form
  3. Retrieving Information from the Source Database
  4. Building the Application
  5. Creating the Target Database
  6. Set Build Properties on the Target Database
  7. Setting Build Properties on the Source Database
  8. Deleting Data from Tables
  9. Calculating the Version Number
  10. Handling Application Dependencies
  11. Updating References
  12. Testing Reference Fix-Up
  13. Late Binding
  14. Licensing Your Applications
  15. Number of Records
  16. Restricting the Number of Times an Application is Launched
  17. Registering an Application
  18. Creating a Registration Web Service
  19. Validate the Registration Using the Web Service
  20. Miscellaneous Deployment Scenarios
  21. Create the Client Application
  22. Testing the Versioning Server
  23. Re-Linking Tables Automatically
  24. Programmatically Creating DSNs
  25. Creating a User DSN
  26. Ensuring an Application Runs Locally