Hi

I have an application that currently uses ado.net to read some files and
populate a datagrid.  The app allows users to search and return values based
on a 'like' parameter in a select statement.

The data files have always been provided to me in MSAccess format and users
have Access on their desktop (ie therefore it has been efficient to use the
JET engine). I don't think that many users have local admin rights or SQL
server.

Now many users have lost MSAccess.  I would like to find some alternatives
for my application.

My data has about 3000 rows and 6 columns - 2 of the columns contain text.

I am not expereinced with xml - but I can learn- but I was wondering if
there are alternatives out there that I could use?

Thanks

Doug