OleDbConnection gets “External component has thrown an exception.”

Question

I\' m using a Windows Forms application to export data to excel.

Application is built both x64 and x86.

So both version of Microsoft Access Databse Engine mu

Answer 1

This will usually occur when the build configuration platform in Visual Studio is incorrect, this can occur in both build configuration platforms, x86 and x64.

This is due to a mismatch between the build configuration platform of your project and the Microsoft Access Database Engine which is installed on your machine.

In order to resolve this error:

• Change the build configuration platform in Visual Studio
• make sure it matches
• the Microsoft Access Database Engine version on your machine
• Recompile and run your project
• The run time error should now be resolved