Microsoft Access 12.0 Object Library

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I am trying to use the Microsoft Access 12.0 Object library.
I go to Project/Add Reference/COM Tab and select Microsoft Access 12.0 Object Library then Ok. Now try as hard as I can, I can't access any of the objects in the library. The same goes for Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object library. Yet however, if I try Microsoft Excel 5.0 Object library it works. What am I doing wrong? What am I not doing that I should be doing?
Please help!!

Ken. :mad:

Posted 12-Apr-10 18:56pm

Kentric

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Graham Shanks · Answer 1 · 2010-04-15T02:42:00

It sound like you don't have Excel 2007/Access 2007 installed on your machine (since the Excel 5.0 object library is working you do have a version of Excel installed). You need to use an object library for the version of Office you have installed (or for a previous version, since most Office object libraries are backwards compatibe)

If you do have Excel 2007/Access 2007 installed then you might have to install the Office Primary Interop Assemblies (see this MSDN howto[^])

Kentric · Answer 2 · 2010-04-15T03:40:00

Thanks Graham for your assistance.
I have Office Pro 2007 with everything installed.
Just to be safe, I downloaded the Office Primary Interop Assemblies and reinstalled them. By the way, to get it to install you have to rename "o2007PIA.msi" to "PIAredist.msi" (Thanks for that time waster Microsoft :~).
I still can't get it to do what I want. Maybe I'm confused about the difference between these two pieces of code:

VB

Dim objAccess As Object
Set objAccess = CreateObject("Access.Application")

which works and .....

VB

Dim oAccess As Access.Application
' Start a new instance of Access for Automation:
oAccess = New Access.ApplicationClass()

Which doesn't.

So I'll just carry on with the the first method.

Cheers.

Microsoft Access 12.0 Object Library

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