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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but...
I'm developing a 64-bit app that interfaces with Access databases, which works fine with the 64-bit ACE drivers. However, due to some inexplicable co-mingling, you can't have 32-bit and 64-bit Access drivers existing on the system without 'tricking' Windows. This also works fine, until Windows update 'fixes' your trickery, forcing your 32-bit Office installation to repair itself and break your 64-bit drivers.
Some solutions are obvious, but stupid (switch to SQL, turn off Windows Update, force users to use 64-bit Office...) and I'd like to get Microsoft's official recommendation.
They're going to make me pay for that aren't they?
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Kyudos wrote: you can't have 32-bit and 64-bit Access drivers existing on the system without 'tricking' Windows
I haven't found that to be true. But maybe because our servers don't have Office installed? Do you have proper servers? Without Office?
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It's a consumer app - it'll be on people's machines with their whatever-version of Office. If they happen to have 64-bit Office (unlikely) it'll all work OK, but if they have our 64-bit plugin, and 32-bit Office (more likely) its a potential problem.
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Then it sounds like it's up to the customer to be sure it runs. Not your problem.
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I wish! It'd be our app that fails, which means they ring us...
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Maybe it does not work, but why do you not release a 32 bit version of your app for people running 32 bit office with 32 bit drivers?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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It's a plugin - if they have a 64-bit version of the host app, they need a 64-bit version of our product. Of course, we will have a 32-bit version too, but forcing the user to acquire a different 'bit-version' of the host app isn't ideal. Inevitably they will tend to ignore the requirement, and then complain about our app 'not working'.
It would all have been academic if Microsoft hadn't made their drivers mutually exclusive...
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What if you determine the bitity on install and then make sure the correct plugin version is used?
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There is no problem matching bitity of host and plugin - the problem arises when that bitity is not matched by the installed version of Office. Not many people use 64-bit Office, so people using 64-bit host are likely to have 32-bit Office.
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Shouldn't you be able to find out which version of Office is installed, too?
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Yes - but that doesn't really help. The best I could do would be to refuse to install or give some kind of warning if the bitness of Office doesn't match the bitness of the host app - it doesn't solve the underlying problem.
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I often refer to coding as "going underwater" because when you are concentrating on some feature or algorithm or whatever it's as if you become totally submerged by the challenge. You can't even hear other people talking. 
Anyways, I recently had this experience while writing my book, Launch Your Android App (releases at Amazon.com on April 1, 2016 (and no, it's not an April fools joke).
An API Can Suck You Underwater
There's a feature in Android which supposedly allows you to share text (import text into your app which the user has selected in another app like the browser).
It's easy to implement. Famous last words!
StackOverflow: I Wish I Could Also Post It Here In A Valid Location
I posted the problem with tons of images to StackOverflow and no one has had any valid response to it.
Android: Sharing Data and Receiving text from 3rd party app. Why doesn't my app receive new text? - Stack Overflow[^]
This isn't an article but I'd like CPers to see it. I appreciate any input anyone has.
Is there a valid place to post it here on CP?
Fascinating When Finding Bugs In Professional APIs
Does anyone else find it fascinating (aka frustrating) to find serious bugs in professional APIs from Google and the rest?
Painful Resolution
I spent days on this and finally created a great workaround. I have the scars to tell about it. 
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you should write this as an article here
(and as for trolls, FVCK EM - they feed off genuine/original work because they have nothing of their own to offer, so the only thing they can do is try to create misery - dont let them get to you)
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Thanks I appreciate your encouragement.
Would this work as an article since it is a workaround solution to an odd problem with Android Intents?
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Mycroft explained it well
You could post it as a tip or even a blog if you didnt have enough material for an article - I just think you have a lot of knowledge that's better out than in and may help someone
... as for the anally retentive ones, a tube of 'rhoid cream could fix them 
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Thanks for the encouragement. I really appreciate it.
I will try get it written up as a tip/article soon.
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Ah I see why some pillock down shifted your post, self promotion (book) not in your sig. Part of dealing with this bunch is that some are really anally retentive!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I can understand if that were a problem. However, they could've mentioned it and also I didn't include any link to it at all in the post. I mean I can see if I had provided a link or something maybe.
Thanks for the input. 
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One day a man with no arms showed up at a monastery, asking if there was any work. The monk thought for a while and asked if he could ring the bell in the tower by running into it with his head. The man with no arms thought he could manage that and started his new career.
For several days, the man happily rang the bell. Then one day he slipped, missed the bell, and fell off the tower, plunging to his death. The local constable showed up and asked the monk if he knew the man. The monk said "No, but his face rings a bell."
Same monastery, few months later. A second man with no arms shows up and says he heard the monastery had a job for a guy with no arms (and an opening). The monk explained and the man took the jobs. He also happily rang the bell for a few days before slipping and plunging to his death. The constable showed up and asked if the monk knew the man. The monk said "No, but he's a dead ringer for the last guy."
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Come on now, Leslie has posted that several times, and I'm sure that it has been sent to Griff too at least a dozen times as well! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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And I've missed it every time... 
Well, I guess this one is for the people like me, who miss the funny jokes 
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This joke has a familiar ring.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes, you have to hand it to those bell-ringing guys... oh... oops!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It just shows that a man with no arms can't be a clapper.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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