MS Access 2003 MDE applications can not run in Access 2000 and Access 2002.
Applications compiled with the undocumented SysCmd call can not run on Access 2000 or Access 2002 because of the differences in Access VBA projects even if the original MDB file format was Access 2000 format.

Access MDE Compiler is a useful Access 2003 add-in which can compile Access MDB applications in 2000 format to Access 2000 MDE files and MDB applications in Access 2002 - 2003 format to MDE applications in Access 2002 (XP) format MDE files using MS Access

The generated applications are stabile and run error free. Applications in Access 2002 MDE format run on Access 2002 and 2003 and applications in Access 2000 MDE format run on Access 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Access MDE Compiler is very useful in situations when your costumers have Access 2000 or 2002 (XP) and you have Access 2003.

The advantages of this add-in over buying Visual Studio Office 2003 Developer Extensions for this task or buying and installing Access 2000 and 2002 in addition to Access 2003 on your computer are significant.

You do not have to distribute a runtime version of Access and no conflicts will appear with installed MS Access applications on your client's desktops or on the development computer.

The add-in supports MDB and MDA databases with Access user level security and behaves exactly like the build-in "Make MDE File" function.

Access MDE Compiler can compile all MDB file made by Access 2003. However, this tool can not replace calls to new Access 2003 properties and methods in the VBA code. If your application uses this type of code a trappable error will be generated at runtime and your application may halt.

Requirements:

· Microsoft Access


Limitations:

· The demo version of the Access MDE Compiler add-in allows you to evaluate the compilation to MDE on files not larger than 220 KB and the compilation to ADE on files not larger than 35 KB.