Detecting MDAC

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Greg Smith

I have a lot of users who don't have the MDAC installed. My Windows app
installs but has problems without it. Is there a way to put in the
distribution app something that will trigger loading the MDAC the same way
the it handles not having the .Net framework installed?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Are you using InstallShield? InstallShield has a merge module for this.

Regards,

Jose Luis Manners, MCP
 
Are you using InstallShield? InstallShield has a merge module for this.
Regards,
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Thanks for the info. All I can find on my system is 2.5. How do you get
something newer?
 
Look for HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess, the FullVersion item. If your
setup is MSI based you can have a registry search that uses the value in a
launch condition.
 
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