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Visual Basic 2013 Application

I'm creating a Visual Basic 2013 application with the following parameters:
Target Framework: .Net Framework 4.5.1
Application Type: Windows Forms Application

The application is opening an Access 2013 Database.

What products should I include in the installation for this to install correctly?
Please provide links to these products so that I can download them.

Thanks

Jaime Olivares

As far as you have described, you need nothing else than the .net framework.

PatHartman

From what you have described, you don't even need Access to be installed since you are not using Access, you are using ACE, the database engine. ACE can be installed separately via a free download from MS. You would only need Access to be installed on the PC that managed the database so you could modify objects.

RayT

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Is this the only piece I need?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255

Jaime Olivares

As far as I understand from the details section, you cannot use that product to use it as your main database engine. In that case, better you use SQL Sever Express or SQL Lite.
If you only intend to "import" data from .mdb files, it may be suitable.

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RayT

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PatHartman

Do not wait until the day you will have to convert your Access database to SQL Server because it is too big or suddenly have more users and cannot cope with the demand. The conversion is a pain, takes a long time, and the users are left in limbo while waiting for you to perform an uninteresting job.

There is no time like the present so rather than building "desktop" style apps, start with "client/server" style apps from the beginning. I can convert any of my Access FE's from Jet/ACE to SQL Server/Oracle/DB2/whatever, in an afternoon because my forms are always good client/server citizens and I include the extra arguments necessary in my DAO code.