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Asked: 2026-06-15T13:35:42+00:00

I’ve been searching online for weeks now, but I can’t find any answer or

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I’ve been searching online for weeks now, but I can’t find any answer or anything related to my problem

The thing is, I have an application I made using c# to load data from an mdb file. The app runs just fine because right now, the app and mdb file (for the database, using oledb) are on the same computer and not on any shared folder. But once were ready to deploy it at the office, the app and mdb file needs to be on a shared folder, to be use by multiple users but the client/user PCs doesn’t have MS access installed.

The problem is that we can’t install ms access or any redistributable file (the file I’ve been seeing on most forums/sites I visited) on the client PCs.

The client PCs have .net 4.0

My questions are:

  1. Will it work? (app and mdb file on shared folder accessed/executed by the client PC’s even without any ms access or redistributable file installed on the client PCs?)
  2. It it wont work that way, what options do I have for the client PCs to open and run the app and mdb file saved on a shared folder?
  3. If it can’t be helped, how can I compile my app with a redistributable file, lets say a .dll file that will help the client PCs to open the app without ms access installed on them? for example (app,mdb and a .dll on the same shared folder)

I really hope and thank you in advance for an answer.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use an access DB in your program without the clients having MS Access installed, without any problem, if you use OLEDB.NET. A question similar to yours in answered here. The answer is correct, that using JET will work without the client have office installed.
    Hope this helps you!

    There are some links that should get you started off using JET note that google get better results if you use the common name OLEDB:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288452%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
    How to connect to a MS Access file (mdb) using C#?
    http://www.dscripts.net/2009/01/20/connect-to-microsoft-access-mdb-database-using-csharp/
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ybdbtte%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
    OLEDB connection to Access Database (accdb)

    EDIT:
    A comment on the answer I linked asks if JET will work with MS2010. The answer is yes, from my experience.

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