Pro-Tip: DDT and Bitness

Hi,

I recently updated TC12.6 to 14.

Found that I have to transfer some setup (my own envirenment) to run TC14.

so desided to run 12.6 untill 14 envirenment is ready.

But erorr keep comming...

The needed data source driver is not installed or is not configured properly.
To read data, install the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider. It is part of Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable. You can find it on the Microsoft website

tried this and that and at the end...

uninstall Access database install 32-bit and even as last resort uninsatall TC14

It start working.

My project suite has sevaral projects in one project at the end of run stop working saying...

The needed data source driver is not installed or is not configured properly.
To read data, install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider. It is part of Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable. You can find it on the Microsoft website. Alternatively, you can try using the 32-bit version of TestComplete

whent inside code and compare....

other than variables nothing deference both are true for ACE drive

DDT.ExcelDriver(Project.Variables.DataXL,'Pre_Data',true);

DDT.ExcelDriver(dtaFile,"Batch_update",true); 

What is the problem? both places were working fine early before TC14 installation.