Is it need that MS office or MS Access is installed on system if we installed application which having access database

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My Windows application is in vc++ with access database. System on which I installed the application or run .exe of application Is it must to have there MS access installed ?

Posted 12-Jan-16 20:13pm

Kishor-KW

Updated 12-Jan-16 20:14pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Jan-16 2:21am

If the application uses Access, it should be installed... :-)
—SA

Michael_Davies 13-Jan-16 2:39am

How are you accessing the database? OLE? ADO?, so long as you have the relevant library included in your install it should work.

Kishor-KW 13-Jan-16 3:28am

using ODBC

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-12T21:33:00

The short answer is:
MS Access must not be present when not using automation (not using the Access COM components).

But you must distribute the drivers for the used method (OLEDB, ODBC) and install them if necessary.

The required drivers are provided by Microsoft: Download Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable from Official Microsoft Download Center[^].

Read the instructions from the above link. When installing your application you should check if the drivers are already present for the same architecture (32/64 bit).