Publishing Vb.net10 Application

Question

I developed this software application with VB.net and Microsoft Access. The software works fine. publishing this applciation has been a huge problem for me. even though it seem to have published fine, it does not seem to recognise my access Database and props up error everytime and everywhere the database is called and used within the program. How can i overcome this problem please.

Answer 1

I just got back from somewhere, anyways... I actually had problems with Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 especially in a 64 bit machine. This is because Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 is designed as a 32 bit component. If you compile your solution as AnyCpu, it shouldn't work since an x64 process cannot load x86 component. So you have 2 options.

1) Change the compiling to 32 bit mode.

2) Use Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider instead of Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0. This uses .accdb instead of .mdb. This is more future proof since the last time I heard, 2003 office won't be supported anymore :)