I do not have this problem when running the Web Service below on a machine with VFP 7 installed.

Do I have to do something special to register the VFP OLEDB Provider on a target machine that does not have VFP 7 installed?

I applied VFP7SP1 and re-booted prior to generating an InstallShield installer with the VFP OLEDB Provider merge module.

What am I doing wrong?

>I have installed the VFP OleDB Provider and I can access a free DBF table after dragging the OleDbConnection and OleDbDataAdapter objects onto my C# WebService project design pannel and generate a DataSet.
>
>However, I cannot access the free table via a DataReader object.
>
>My WebService has the following code:
>
> [WebMethod]
> public string GetLastPrefix()
> {
> string sqlString;
> string lastPrefix;
>
> OleDbCommand sqlCmd = new OleDbCommand();
>
> sqlString = "SELECT cPrefix FROM bsreg";
> sqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
> sqlCmd.CommandText = sqlString;
> sqlCmd.Connection = xOleDbConn;
>
> // Init lastPrefix to ""
> lastPrefix = "";
>
> xOleDbConn.Open();
>
> OleDbDataReader dr = sqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
> if (dr.Read())
> lastPrefix = dr[0].ToString();
>
> xOleDbConn.Close();
>
> return lastPrefix;
> }
>
>And I get the following error when I invoke the WebService:
>
>System.InvalidOperationException: The 'VFPOLEDB.1' provider is not registered on the local machine. ---> System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: No error information available: REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG(0x80040154).
> --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
> at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.CreateProviderError(Int32 hr)
> at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.CreateProvider()
> at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
> at wsBSSN.BSSN.GetLastPrefix() in d:\develop\net\bssn\wsbssn\bssn.asmx.cs:line 96
>
>
>Line 96 points to: xOleDbConn.Open();
>
>I'm not getting any compile errors.
>
>Does the VFP OleDb Provider work with the DataReader object?
>
>
>>You need to use the OLEDB provider that ships with VFP7 not ODBC. There are samples available about how to access VFP data using ADO.NET in the following whitepaper:
>>
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen7/html/usingaspnetwithvfp7.asp