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

I had the same error. It was fixed when I changed Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; to Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0; I was running Office 2016.