INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 7 of 7-Data Access SDK 2.0 (217097)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio, Enterprise Edition 6.0
This article was previously published under Q217097

SUMMARY

Installation Notes contains vital information about installing Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 -- Development System for Windows and the Internet, and its family of development products. Information in this file may apply to all or a number of the products shipped in the Visual Studio suite. This Readme updates information provided in the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library Visual Studio 6.0 documentation.

The entire Installation Notes are in the file, Install.htm. This file is installed during setup in the Visual Studio 6.0 directory. Please see the REFERENCES section for other parts of the Installation Notes.

MORE INFORMATION

This article discusses all issues identified in the Data Access SDK 2.0. The following topics are in this article:
  • Install Requirements
  • How to Install the Microsoft Data Access SDK 2.0
  • Before Using SQL Server 6.5 or Older with MDAC 2.0
  • When Microsoft Internet Explorer Setup Installs Older Versions of MDAC Files

Install Requirements

The Data Access SDK delivered with Visual Studio requires that the Microsoft Data Access components be installed prior to installing this SDK. Otherwise, when the SDK setup is run, you get the following message:
ODBC is not installed on this machine. If you continue, you will receive errors. Do you wish to continue anyway?
To resolve this, make sure that you have run the Visual Studio setup before installing the Data Access SDK.

How to Install the Microsoft Data Access SDK 2.0

The Microsoft Data Access SDK 2.0 can be installed by running the file DASDK.exe from the \dasdk directory on disc 2.

The SDK includes Microsoft Data Access Components samples, and further information and tools for ODBC and OLE DB developers.

Before Using SQL Server 6.5 or Older with MDAC 2.0

You must update the catalog procedures if you plan to use SQL Server 6.5 or older with MDAC 2.0. Please see the SQL Server Driver Help file, drvssrvr.hlp, for more information. Typically, you will find drvssrvr.hlp:
  • On NT systems: \winnt\system32
  • On Windows 95: \windows\system

When Microsoft Internet Explorer Setup Installs Older Versions of MDAC Files

The Microsoft Data Access (MDAC) files installed by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 setup may be older than the MDAC files installed by Visual Studio 6.0 products. If you install Internet Explorer on a computer that already has Visual Studio 6.0, and you get a message asking you to confirm whether you want to install older versions of MDAC files, choose to keep the newer components currently on your computer.

REFERENCES

For the additional parts of the Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

217091 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 1 of 7-Installation Instructions for Visual Studio Programs

217092 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 2 of 7-Installing Server-Side Components

217093 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 3 of 7-Configuring for Debugging

217094 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 4 of 7-Issues Specific to Windows 9x Computers

217095 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 5 of 7-Notes Impacting Other Installed Programs

217096 Visual Studio 6.0 Installation Notes Part 6 of 7-Issues Related to Computers with Non-U.S. Versions of Microsoft Programs

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/15/2005
Keywords:kbinfo KB217097
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