Need help setting up test environment

sandman

I've done all my development on my own machine, running it on the
localhost IIS. Now I need to let a couple of users test it. How can I
set them up so they can access the Access 2000 database without writing
a webservice for it right now? The obvious solution is to install the
development kit on the manager's box but that seems like overkill. I've
tried sharing my hard-drive thru the Windows network but that's a
marginal solution at best.

margaret

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Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]

Access databases are local by nature, so it is usually expected the database
will reside on the same box the application runs on. So you can copy the
database to each test machine and configure the connection string of your
application accordingly.

Making the database accessible through a shared network folder might work as
well, but can probably pose concurrency issues.

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I've done all my development on my own machine, running it on the
localhost IIS. Now I need to let a couple of users test it. How can I
set them up so they can access the Access 2000 database without writing
a webservice for it right now? The obvious solution is to install the
development kit on the manager's box but that seems like overkill. I've
tried sharing my hard-drive thru the Windows network but that's a
marginal solution at best.

margaret

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