Acme
23rd October 2013 15:18 UTC

NSIS MS Access Signed Install
Hi All,

New user, first time poster.

I have an NSIS installer that installs access files. The files are in MS Access 2013, and are signed (so they are in .accdc format). I am just wondering if anyone has had success opening signed access files with NSIS. I ask because when you open an access .accdc file, you are systematically prompted for a location to store the resulting .accdb file, after which the file opens. I am being told that this is not possible in NSIS but I am dubious. I could just distribute the accdb files, but would rather have the signed file distributed. Does anyone know how to handle this?

Thanks,
Don

T.Slappy
24th October 2013 15:33 UTC

What are you trying exactly to achieve? To a) copy .accdb files somewhere (possible with NSIS) or b) to "double-click" on them?

For b) you can use use ShellExecute and "open" verb to execute application associated with .accdb extension.