When I am debugging a vb.Net 2008 windows application and click on the 'next' button, I am getting the following error:

'An unexpected error has occurred. The 'Microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0'provider is not registered on the local machine'.



I think that I may need to change some setting I have in the visual studio.net 2008 professional edition to solve this problem.



I am working on an workstation that is 64 bits, XP operating system. When the click event has occurred, I have just attached an excel 2003 spreadsheet to a file in the general directory structure prior to clicking on the 'next' button.



This application runs fine in production, this error just occurs in debug mode.

Can you tell me what I could change to fix my problem?

The Jet Database engine is not available in 64 bit version. You must compile the app as a 32 bit application.