Detecting MDAC - .NET Framework

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.

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Jose Luis Manners

Are you using InstallShield? InstallShield has a merge module for this.

Regards,

Jose Luis Manners, MCP

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
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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.

Jul 21 '05 #2

Greg Smith

> Are you using InstallShield? InstallShield has a merge module for this.

Regards,

Thanks for the info. All I can find on my system is 2.5. How do you get
something newer?

Jul 21 '05 #3

Jose Luis Manners

I believe the minimum version you need for .NET is MDAC 2.6 (which is old
already). You can the latest versioin here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downl...#MDACDownloads
under "MDAC Downloads"

Hope this helps,

Jose Luis Manners, MCP

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
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Are you using InstallShield? InstallShield has a merge module for this.

Regards,

Thanks for the info. All I can find on my system is 2.5. How do you get
something newer?

Jul 21 '05 #4

Phil Wilson

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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Phil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer]
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"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:u3**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

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.

Jul 21 '05 #5

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