Question

My Application is built to a scan MS Access database in VB.NET.

When the Access application is distributed to end users, they may have different versions of COM components. Is it possible to Add/Remove references programmatically to resolve broken references due to differing versions?

Please share me code or link for reference.

Answer 1

Here is some sample code:

Create Reference from File

  Sub AddWS()   'Create a reference to Windows Script Host, '   'where you will find FileSystemObject '    'Reference name: 'IWshRuntimeLibrary' '   'Reference Name in references list: 'Windows Script Host Object Model' '   ReferenceFromFile 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshom.ocx'   End Sub    Function ReferenceFromFile(strFileName As String) As Boolean   Dim ref As Reference           On Error GoTo Error_ReferenceFromFile          References.AddFromFile (strFileName)          ReferenceFromFile = True    Exit_ReferenceFromFile:          Exit Function     Error_ReferenceFromFile:          ReferenceFromFile = False          Resume Exit_ReferenceFromFile    End Function  

Delete Reference

  Sub DeleteRef(RefName)   Dim ref As Reference        'You need a reference to remove '       Set ref = References(RefName)       References.Remove ref    End Sub    You can use the references collection to find if a reference exists. 

Reference Exists

  Function RefExists(RefName)   Dim ref As Object       RefExists = False       For Each ref In References          If ref.Name = RefName Then              RefExists = True          End If      Next    End Function 

From: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Add,_Remove,_Check_References

You may also wish to read http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0022.htm