I Have an MS Access Db that I built for a friend about 8 1/2 years ago. It now has a ton of important data, reports, and programming (important but crappy programming I will admit). I now need to revist this app and rewrite it in c#. But here is the catch, I no longer have access to MS Access (pun not intended — well ok, it really was). And I dont want to download the trial version from MS because it is part of Office Professional and installing a trial of Professional will mess up my registered version of Small Buiness edt. So in effect, I would need to uninstall my version of office, install the trial, do what I need to do, then uninstall the trial and reinstall my version. Somewhere in that process, I am sure my computer would die.
So my question to the group would be, can you think of a way to extact the reports and forms from Access (data is easy) so I can continue the development in VS2008 and c#.
It will be far easier to find a friend with a version – any version – of Access installed and do what you need from there. It will take much less time, especially since there’s code involved.