DAO 3.6 distribution on WinXP

"confused" <anonymous.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message <news:797BBCD1-BC9B-4EA2-98D6-C7A4067D6F7E@microsoft.com>...

 > I read in MSDN (here: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmdac/html/mdac25.asp" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmda...tml/mda</a>)
 > that WinXP installs MDAC 2.7, and have also read that as of v2.5 of MDAC
 > the Jet DAO dlls are not included. So how are Jet 4/DAO 3.60-based
 > solutions supposed to be deployed to WinXP clients?

This behavior is by design. You're supposed to be forcing everyone
to install MDAC 2.8 and MSDE2000A! You're probably better off using
Jet 3.51 and DAO 3.5, unless you want to scour the 'net for a copy
of jet40sp3_comp.exe, which somehow 'disappeared' from Micro$haft's
sites. Next, you'll have to install the right Jet 4.0 service pack
for the client's OS, and probably reinstall MDAC once or thrice:

<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q239/1/14.ASP>

<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/data/download_Jet4SP3.htm> IS BROKEN!

Anyway, Jet is definitely NOT where Micro$haft wants you to go today:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/mdacsdk/htm/mdac_deprecated.asp>

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