What excatrly is mdac and why do some vb installations require that it be installed also when a vb app is intstalled?
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What excatrly is mdac and why do some vb installations require that it be installed also when a vb app is intstalled?
Microsoft
Data
Access
Components
MDAC is a series of APIs for accessing data. (ADO DLLs, DAO, Drivers)
If your app requires access to a data source (Access, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.). It will require some component of MDAC.
Microsoft Data Access Components - a series of dll files Microsoft have built up which let your app communicate to databases. If you use ado or dao etc to add items to or read from a database, you're vb code will be calling on these dll's.
www.microsoft.com/data