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MDAC Questions - do I Reeeeally need to include it in my install?

Ref - VB6, MDAC

I've read where MDAC is included with Windows Versions ME at later. So I'm wondering...

1) Except in cases where a user has Windows 9x, do I really need to include an MDAC_TYP setup/subinstall in my program installation?

and

2) If the answer above is No, what happens when my program which is compiled against MDAC 2.7 is installed on a machine that only has MDAC 2.6, or 2.5, or so on it...

Thanks in advance

vinnyd79

It depends on the version of mdac. Win2000 comes with MDAC 2.5 so I usually use it for compatability reasons.If you compile with MDAC 2.7 , you will need to install 2.7 on the machines you will use your app on. Im not sure what version comes with ME. It might be 2.1

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JasonMarsh

Srimanth, you are right regarding that. I wrote an application using 2.7 and tried to run it on a pc that had 2.6 installed and it did fail. I could have sworn that worked before... hmmm...

midknyte

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Thanks guys.

I have MDAC all the way back to 2.0 . App runs fine referencing this version so I've recompiled and will able to drop MDAC from the install.