Uninstalling ADO 2.6

[Dave.Hermans]

Hi guys, (and girlz)

I installed ADO 2.6 by accident and it seems not to be backwards compatible with ADO 2.5. Now my problem, our RD-team develops in ADO 2.5 and i get one error after another.

So i was hoping that someone could tell me how to uninstall ADO 2.6

Thanx

[crispin]

what BC issues are you having - this is very strange there should be no interface problems with going to 2.6 from 2.5.....

[Dave.Hermans]

We use an 3 tier type application ASP -> VB-Bussines layer (DLL) -> VB-Data Layer (DLL) -> SQL Server 7.0

and we use a dynamic Data layer this means components are created when needed.
And now we get type mismatches everywhere when using ado 2.6 when we run on a machine using ADI 2.5 -> no problem.

so, i can asure you there are problems.
I invite you to come and spent a day here and you'll be convinced there are.
Doen't anyone now how to uninstall ado 2.6, or how to downgrade to ado 2.5 ???

[crispin]

can you debug the type mismatch error? or tell me what method is causing the type mismatch...

(I don't disbelieve you by the way, I just thought MS had this one covered - obviously not...)

[Kersey]

Hello Dave,

following links show the files included in mdac2.6 & mdac 2.51
deleting all files which are in 2.6 and reinstalling 2.51
will probably do the trick...

(no guarantee !!! back up first)

http://www.microsoft.com/data/MDAC26info/Manifest26RTM.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/data/MDAC25info/MDAC25SP1Manifest.htm


Good luck/succes

Don

[crispin]

Here you go:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q231/3/83.ASP


The component checker - good luck