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Deploying DB apps

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From: Ted Byers
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:06
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OK, thanks to the help I have received here, my application is progressing
nicely.  It should be ready to distribute in a week or two.  But I have one
concern.

I have been building this with BCB5 and MS Access 2000.  I have, as far as I
know, the latest MDAC from MS.  I am worried that if the user's machine has
an older version of MDAC or a different version of the code providing ADO
support (I assume ADO is provided in one or more DLLs that are part of the
OS), my application may crash.  Do I really need to be concerned about this?
If so, how can I address it?  I suppose I can recommend that the user gets
the latest MDAC, but there is no guarantee that the user will do so.  And
what happens if the version of MDAC on a given user's machine is more recent
than the one I used to build the application?  Is this something that can be
tested in code, so the user can at least get an explanation of what has
happened and how to fix it?  Will I need to rebuild, and provide an update,
every time there is a new version of MDAC?

I tend to be paranoid about bugs, especially things that can make my
application crash mysteriously.

Thanks in advance

Ted
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