How to use the Microphone with a 64-bit Application (64-bit Office)?

Question

To whom it may concern,

I have a programming conundrum.

I have a program that I developed over 10 years that uses XNA to record from the microphone. The program interfaces with an Access database that contains a directory of Recording information: A) Categories, B) Sub-Categories, etc. that it uses to Title, Add Metadata to, and then File (save the mp3(s) to specific directories). The program was always designed with this interface in mind.

The program has been working great since.

I now have a problem: the version of Office on the target machine(s) is now running 64-bit Office, which means that I have to compile the application to use the 64-bit Access Driver. The program can no longer use the XNA 4.0 libraries since they are 32-bit.

In order to get around the Office64 (Access64) issue (of the program blowing up as soon as it tried to open the *.accdb file), I Un-Clicked "Prefer 32-bit".

Now I have the opposite problem.

Is there a way of using a 32-bit Access driver in a 64-bit Office environment? Or…is there a set of libraries that are 64-bit that can access the Microphone like in XNA?

Thank you for your time in advance.

Sincerely,

Paul Goldstein