The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine.

Really?

I normally do not use Access Databases, but for a pet project of mine I decided to quickly use Access 2010 Database to store some data. When I tried to add the database connection to my Windows Forms application, Visual Studio 2010 barked at me:

The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine.

Even though it seems not logical, what fixes this problem is installing the Office 2007 System Driver: Data Connectivity Components.

Hope this helps someone…

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