making shortcuts to start MsAccess

4 Dec 2006 9:22 PM

reidarT

I am making an installation program for an Access application. The
application is run on both Office 2000, 2002, 2003 and soon 2007 versions of
Office,
When I install the application I need a shortcut from the users desktop and
I need
C:\programfiles\office\office9\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
path\lockfile.mdw
C:\programfiles\office\office10\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
path\lockfile.mdw
C:\programfiles\office\office11\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
path\lockfile.mdw
C:\programfiles\office\office12\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
path\lockfile.mdw
How can I make shortcuts for each o these versions?
I know how to find msaccess on the users computer, but I don't know how to
create the shortcut (lnk)

reidarT

5 Dec 2006 7:10 AM

RobinS

I don't know how to do that programmatically. I just wanted to
tell you can ignore the response from dbahooker. He's the same
guy as aaronKempf, who's been flaming this newsgroup for a while now.

Robin S.
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"reidarT" <rei***@eivon.no> wrote in message
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>I am making an installation program for an Access application. The
>application is run on both Office 2000, 2002, 2003 and soon 2007 versions
>of Office,
> When I install the application I need a shortcut from the users desktop
> and I need
> C:\programfiles\office\office9\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office10\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office11\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office12\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> How can I make shortcuts for each o these versions?
> I know how to find msaccess on the users computer, but I don't know how to
> create the shortcut (lnk)
>
> reidarT
>
>

5 Dec 2006 1:03 PM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

in VB6 i did this with WSH :-)

here are some links

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2004/09/18/13677.aspx

regards

Michel

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"reidarT" wrote:

> I am making an installation program for an Access application. The
> application is run on both Office 2000, 2002, 2003 and soon 2007 versions of
> Office,
> When I install the application I need a shortcut from the users desktop and
> I need
> C:\programfiles\office\office9\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office10\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office11\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> C:\programfiles\office\office12\msaccess path\application.mdb /wrkgrp
> path\lockfile.mdw
> How can I make shortcuts for each o these versions?
> I know how to find msaccess on the users computer, but I don't know how to
> create the shortcut (lnk)
>
> reidarT
>
>
>