InvalidOperationException: 'The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine

[tekeroth-snapcode]

When opening the Shapfile, I get this:

InvalidOperationException: 'The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.'

Found a SO thread on it:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1991643/microsoft-jet-oledb-4-0-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine

But installing that driver does not change anything for me, nor do I have any connectionStrings, as they talk about.

Running Win11, dotnet framework 4.7, VS 2022.

[abfo]

There are two ways to handle this. If you target your application at 32-bit (x86) then the JET driver should work. You can also install System.Data.OleDb and try the alternate connection string ConnectionStringTemplateAce in Shapefile.

[tekeroth-snapcode]

Hello! Where does one set the connection string?

[abfo]

There is a constructor overload that takes the connection string as an argument, and there are two defined options for JET and ACE in Shapefile. The default is JET.

[eithe]

I guess this means that using this library in a .NET 7 application running on 64bit linux is not supported @abfo ?

[abfo]

Not something I've tried. You could install System.Data.OleDb and experiment with the connection string. I think that package should work on Linux.

[eithe]

Thanks for the suggestion, @abfo, but unfortunately System.Data.OleDb is not supported on Linux even though the package is available for .NET core/6/7/8. Getting "System.Data.OleDb is not supported on this platform" when on Linux.

For anyone else seeing this: I wasn't very good at researching when I first looked for Shapefile readers in .NET. Now I see that NetTopologySuite (which we actually already have in our project) supports reading Shapefiles through ShapefileDataReader.

[abfo]

Sorry to hear that, and glad you found a solution that works for you.