Drivers are not registered

[Guest]

I have a "UDL" file on my desktop that I used to test my OLEDB connection to
my database. When I invoke this and supply my User ID and Password, it
connects to the database just fine.

Now when I go over to VS2005 and supply the same connection in my UDL, I get
a error when I attempt to open my connection saying the driver is not
registerd "{"The 'IBMDADB2.1' provider is not registered on the local
machine."}". So how's come it is found just fine by the UDL and then not
found by VS2005?

How do I register these drivers?

I installed the IBM .Net drivers and this installed in GAC - perhaps these
drivers can not be referred to as "IBMDADB2.1". My project has shows a
reference to the .Net drivers. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with 2
version of the drivers being installed - but I can not really explain how the
system finds them just fine outside of VS2005. One set is in one folder and
the other set installed in another folder.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

 

[Miha Markic]

Try connecting using wizard from Server Explorer window (Server
Explorer/Connect to Database)