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Installing Text and Access Drivers

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:05 pm
by rwgiesel
I have an application that requires the target machine to have both the Microsoft Text Driver (for TXT and CSV files) and support to read a Microsoft Access 2003 database (MDB). I'm using VB.NET 2005 for this application and I would think at first that I simply need to include the 'Microsoft MDAC Refresh 2.8 with Service Pack 1' application runtime to my install.

Is that all I need to do or do I need another merge module or additional files?

Note that I'm not talking about deploying an Access application itself; simply a .NET application that uses an Access database.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Rob

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:05 am
by MLS
if it installs mstext35.dll or the equivalent for newer versions it should be fine.

I can't see mdac not including it though