.ADE

📌 The .ADE file category is related to the database project branch generated and opened up by Microsoft Access, a powerful, productive desktop relational database system. Particularly, the .ADE record entries include all data integrated into a particular .ADP project entity, except the custom modules written in the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) source code structure are precompiled and afterwards the formerly written .ADE source code entries are superseded. It should be miscellaneously specified that .ADE file items are also stored in compressed shape so that they subsequently reduce the file size and serve for optimizing performance in the Access environment. Even with the former source code compilation and file compression, all of the compound database elements in a respective .ADE existing container behave in the same way as the existing .ADP pinpoint project instance. Besides, the .ADE file technology assists to protect proprietary VBA source code content by disallowing and restricting the originally written source code to be opened, adjusted, or reviewed.

How to open an .ADE file?

📌 The .ADE file content can be exploited, utilized and processed by the Microsoft Access database system of up-to-date or former generations. Microsoft Access toolkit compliant with the .ADE format specification is adapted for Windows operating system unexceptionally, and is not runnable and sustained in scope of any other desktop platforms, such as Linux and macOS. Furthermore, if you do not desire to preinstall the desktop Access distributive bundle on your hard disk to open up the .ADE file composition and schema, it is quite reasonable to make use of Microsoft Access 365 cloud-based web-service, accessible in terms of Microsoft 365 license. In this occasion you would be able to process, handle and operate with any preferential .ADE data content from any desktop device, corresponding to proper hardware requirements and technical characteristics. Microsoft 365 platform is also eligible to function on Windows architecture solely, serving as a source operating shell on your stationary PC or laptop.