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Re: ADO deployment - Windows versions

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From: Arnie Mauer
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:39
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I use MDAC 2.6x on W2K and it works fine.

The MDAC page on www.microsoft.com list the requirements for the various
Windows operating systems.  All of the required stuff is downloadable from
there.

- Arnie

"Eddie Ludema" <ludema@uofu.net> wrote in message news:3c42e9c3_1@dnews...
> Quick question...
>
> I've developed an app that used the BDE for connecting to a MSSQL
database.
> Once we released the software, it was fouling up on 80% of the computers
it
> was installed on, even though it worked on every Windows OS that I tested
it
> on :)
>
> I decided to switch to ADO, and the application runs fine.  My question is
> this... Which versions of Windows need which versions of MDAC and possibly
> even DCOM?  The app ran perfectly on Windows XP (MDAC 2.7) after
installing
> the Borland patches for ADOExpress.  However, in Windows 2000, I had to
> download MDAC 2.7...  How about the other versions of Windows?  What do I
> need to include in the installation?  Is there anything else I should
watch
> out for?  I'm new to this stuff, so I'm a little blind right now to what
> could go wrong.
>
> Any help would be great!
> Thanks!
>
> Eddie
>
>
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