Comments on: Connecting to Excel and Access Files using .Net on a 64-bit Server

By: raymond

raymond — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:14:47 +0000

Hi, i did follow the step and it worked fine;My only worry is that when i published the site on the production server the reference to the driver are not fount ;Is here anyways that i can add reference to the driver so that it can work on the production server.
Thanks

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:27:17 +0000

I’m using the new 64bit Office 2010 drivers with provider name Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0.

Ritesh Note there is a problem with the provider name Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.14.0 is not registered but if you use Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 it works.

Anyhow, it all works ok for a while reading CSV files and excel sheets etc ok but then throws a “The provider reported an unexpected catestrophic failure”

My environment is 64-bit Windows 7 running VM Workstation, with a 64-bit Windows 7 guest running SQL Server 2008 64 Bit. Essentially I’m running the following which works… occasionally getting the failure above

select top 50 * FROM OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0′,’Text;Database=c:\temp\captell;HDR=Yes’, ‘SELECT * FROM [DASDGIGS0013046591395.TXT]‘)

I’ve also tried this on Windows server 2003 64bit with SQL Server 2008 64 bit and get the same error.

Has anyone else had this problem?

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:30 +0000

It works for my local XP box but it still doesnt work for my Win Server 2003 Standard Edition box where we test our application. I am getting this error – “The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.14.0′ provider is not registered on the local machine.”

I installed x86 version of the driver downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&displaylang=en

I would appreaciate any input on this.

By: Ivn

Ivn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:24:02 +0000

howto get it work from visual studio 2010?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:13:37 +0000

I’ll try this out when i get the chance