Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 for 32 bit MS Office under 64 bit OS

Question

Hello,

I have a problem when using "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010" to get data from Excel file. It always gave me an error "'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provide is not registered on the local machine". My machine is 64 bit Windows 7, and using 32 bit MS office.Could anyone give me suggestion how to fix this issue?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Is your application 32 or 64-bit? If you are trying to compile/run as 64-bit or AnyCPU, try changing it to 32-bit (x86). Since you have 32-bit MS Office installed the ACE driver will most likely be the 32-bit version. We had a similar issue and upon doing a little research it appeared that Microsoft doesn't support installing both the 32 and 64-bit ACE driver at the same time, so we have done something to first try to use the ACE driver and if that fails, fall back to the JET driver.

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Answer 2

Hi,

I am moving this thread to ADO.NET Managed Providers forum for better response.

Best regards,

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