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Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is desktop app
(developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have to have a
licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access appliction)
Nov 12 '05 #1
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If you own a version of Visual Basic other than the Learning Edition, then
you have the necessary license to distribute a Jet database with your
application.

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Scott McDaniel
CS Computer Software
Visual Basic - Access - Sql Server - ASP
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Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is desktop app
(developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have to have a licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access appliction)

Nov 12 '05 #2
This is VB.NET - do I have to buy VS.NET then ?

"Scott McDaniel" <sc***@no.spam. thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
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If you own a version of Visual Basic other than the Learning Edition, then
you have the necessary license to distribute a Jet database with your
application.

--
Scott McDaniel
CS Computer Software
Visual Basic - Access - Sql Server - ASP
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is desktop app (developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have to
have a
licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access

appliction)


Nov 12 '05 #3
According to the redist.txt document in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET folder, you can distribute the JetSetup.exe file. Note that,
like you, I own VB.Net, not VS.net
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
This is VB.NET - do I have to buy VS.NET then ?

"Scott McDaniel" <sc***@no.spam. thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
news:-L************** ******@comcast. com...
If you own a version of Visual Basic other than the Learning Edition, then
you have the necessary license to distribute a Jet database with your
application.

--
Scott McDaniel
CS Computer Software
Visual Basic - Access - Sql Server - ASP
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is desktop

app (developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have to

have
a
licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access

appliction)



Nov 12 '05 #4
Do I have to? If user has .net framework installed, won't the application
work?

"Scott McDaniel" <scott@NO___Spa m--thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
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According to the redist.txt document in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET folder, you can distribute the JetSetup.exe file. Note that,
like you, I own VB.Net, not VS.net
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
This is VB.NET - do I have to buy VS.NET then ?

"Scott McDaniel" <sc***@no.spam. thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
news:-L************** ******@comcast. com...
If you own a version of Visual Basic other than the Learning Edition, then you have the necessary license to distribute a Jet database with your
application.

--
Scott McDaniel
CS Computer Software
Visual Basic - Access - Sql Server - ASP
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
> Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is
desktop app
> (developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have
to have
a
> licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access
appliction)
>
>



Nov 12 '05 #5
Is the Jet database engine automatically installed as part of the .NET
framework? I was not aware that it is.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
Do I have to? If user has .net framework installed, won't the application
work?

"Scott McDaniel" <scott@NO___Spa m--thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
news:58******** ************@co mcast.com...
According to the redist.txt document in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft

Visual
Studio .NET folder, you can distribute the JetSetup.exe file. Note that,
like you, I own VB.Net, not VS.net
"Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
This is VB.NET - do I have to buy VS.NET then ?

"Scott McDaniel" <sc***@no.spam. thedatabaseplac e.net> wrote in message
news:-L************** ******@comcast. com...
> If you own a version of Visual Basic other than the Learning Edition,
then
> you have the necessary license to distribute a Jet database with
your > application.
>
> --
> Scott McDaniel
> CS Computer Software
> Visual Basic - Access - Sql Server - ASP
> "Flyfish" <fl*****@poczta .onet.pl> wrote in message
> news:bu******** **@inews.gazeta .pl...
> > Can I use MDB database in shareware type application? This is

desktop app
> > (developed in VB) using Access Database through OLEDB... Do I have to have
> a
> > licence? (Is the licence needed only for clients, e.g. MS Access
> appliction)
> >
> >
>
>



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