Are you saying that you don't see the Access or Oracle providers? What is in
the drop-down list shown in the Create Connection dialog? What version of VS
are you using? Express has limited provider support from the IDE.
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"MoSingh" <mlamba_at_reba_international.com.(reba international is one
word)> wrote in message
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> I have installed Visual C# 2008 and the dotnet framework 3.5 and also
> downloaded and installed MDAC_TYP.EXE version 2.8.
> But yet when i go to visualstudio and try to make a new connection I only
> see 3 providers. All 3 are SQL Server, the default is "Microsoft
> SQLServer
> COMPACT Edition" and one is SQL Server data file.
> Is there something else I need to do to make Visual Studio see other
> providers?
