Converting mdb file to exe file??

It would be nice to be able to package an Access application I've written and sell it directly to a customer, or use the Internet as a marketing and distribution tool.
But that's just not going to happen.

The developer edition does add a few features to Office that are missing in the standard version. But there is no "compilation" step in Access.

You can send an application as an. MDE, but there's no such thing as an .EXE you can deliver.

You can, of course, build an .EXE in Visual Basic or another programming language, and use the Access .MDB as the data source, but using another development system would mean rebuilding all the forms and reports in the Access application.

The bad news is Access is notoriously difficult to distribute to large numbers of users.

The problem distributing Access applications lies in the many different versions and formats of Office that exist. Installing an application built in Access 2000 might, for instance, break Access 97 applications and/or Access 2003 applications already residing on the user's computer.

Just having a different Office service pack installed is enough to cause an application to stop working or refuse to install properly.

Your best bet in getting an Access application distributed is to invest in a professional installation tool such as Wise (http://www.wise.com) or InstallShield (http://www.installshield.com), then get the SageKey installation scripts (http://www.sagekey.com) to build your distribution package.

The bottom line is distributing an Access application to large numbers of users is a daunting task. SageKey, Wise, and InstallShield provide an acceptable path to distributing Access applications, but at a fairly high cost of time and expense.

It is / was an MS Product.
It expects an application though, forms, macros et al.

Otherwise look at using Visual studio

I am using Access 2003 as developing platform, and then use the free:
- MS Access 2007 Developing Extensions
- MS Access 2007 Runtime
It works fine.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2007/02/02/access-2007-runtime-and-developer-extension-will-be-free.aspx