>>Is there a way to find out if a particular OleDb provider is installed at runtime?
>>Thanks,
>>Einar
>
>Ohh beautiful is the .NET framework!!!
>
>
>System.Data.OleDb.OleDbEnumerator o = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbEnumerator();
>System.Data.DataTable dt = o.GetElements();
>
>string s = "";
>for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
>{
> for (int j = 0; j < dt.Columns.Count; j++)
> {
> s += dt.Rows[i][j].ToString() + " ";
> }
> s += Environment.NewLine;
>}
>MessageBox.Show(s);
>>
>Now this might query the (f@#$%@$!@#ing) registry behind the scenes but ignorance is bliss :)
Einar,
Thank you for sharing the solution. I often wondered myself about this. Which brings me to another question but I will post it as a separate thread.
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