How to reference mdac 2.8 component?

[Rvo]

I made a VB.Net application that connects to some Oracle Databases, on my
machine (W2K latest SP and pathes, VS2003) the application runs fine.
On my machine I had MDAC 2.5xx installed.

When I try to run my installer application on a different computer (w/o .NET
installed, but after installing the .NET Framework), I get an error. The
specific error is: "The .Net Data OLE DB Provider (System.Data.OleDb)
requires Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.6 or later.
Version 2.53.6200.0 was found and currently installed)".

So I downloaded the MDAC 2.8 setup and installed this on my machine in
order to add a reference to the new MDAC and thus deploy it with the setup
package so that the enduser installation doesn't require the separate
installation of MDAC 2.8.

However, I can't figure out what I have to reference on order to do this. I
can't seem to find it in the .Net components and even in the COM components
there's only "Microsoft Data Access Components Installed Version" with
TypeLib version "2.50". This does not appear to be new since the
installation of MDAC 2.8. And making a reference to this component doesn't
solve the problem so I'm left clueless.

Can anyone point me towards the component which I should refer to in order
to deploy a setup which installs MDAC 2.8 with my application?

Thanks for your time,

Romain

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Rvo,

Why are you not just using the OleDb Oracle connections.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ledatabase.asp

Searching that page I found this as well

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;183050

However better is to ask this question in the newsgroup

Adonet
<news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet>

Web interface:

<http://communities2.microsoft.com/co...s/?dg=microsof
t.public.dotnet.framework.adonet>

Although Miha is not active I saw at the moment, are there probably others
who can help you there.

I hope this helps

Cor