Missing Data Control 1

[smil3y]

I am about to make the conversion from VB6 to VB.NET - just have not had time. I have a few books to help me and I have 2 copies of Visual Studio Professional 2003. One copy is a 60 day trial that came with SAMs 'Teach Yourself Visual Basic.net 2003 in 24 hours", the other copy is a legitimate licenced copy used by my employer. My employer is not using the copy so they agreed that I could install it on my work computer.

I installed it without incident. My problem is that all the books I have read state there should be a DATA CONTROL in the TOOLBOX. I believe there should be tabs called Data, Components and Windows Forms. The Data tab is missing.

I have tried to find information from Tek-Tips and fromthe books I have - but nothing. I thought maybe the Data tab was an installable component similar to VB6 but cannot find anything under components.

Next I tried my trial version that came with the SAMs book. This time I installed on my home computer and although the SAMs book states I should have a Data tab - I still do not get the Data tab.

Can anyone help me - I must obviously me missing something.

 

[SqueakinSweep]

Was MDAC installed during setup?. VS2003 installs 2.7 as I recall, although 2.8 is now available



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...if it works dont f*** with it
...if its f****ed blame someone else
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[smil3y]

Thanks.
I do not believe MDAC was installed. I will download and try.

 

[smil3y]

Both computers were XP - I checked and only MDAC2.5 was installed on my home computer. I installed MDAC2.71 and reinstalled VB.NET. Data Control is now visible.

Many thanks