Creating Connections to Access Databases


  • ' Visual Basic
    Public Sub ConnectToAccess()
    Dim conn As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection()
    ' TODO: Modify the connection string and include any
    ' additional required properties for your database.
    conn.ConnectionString = & _
    "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data source=" & _
    "C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\dbFile.mdb"
    Try
    conn.Open()
    ' Insert code to process data.
    Catch ex As Exception
    MessageBox.Show("Failed to connect to data source")
    Finally
    conn.Close()
    End Try
    End Sub

    // C#
    public void ConnectToAccess()
    {
    System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection conn = new
    System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection();
    // TODO: Modify the connection string and include any
    // additional required properties for your database.
    conn.ConnectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
    @"Data source= C:\Documents and Settings\username\" +
    @"My Documents\AccessFile.mdb";
    try
    {
    conn.Open();
    // Insert code to process data.
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
    MessageBox.Show("Failed to connect to data source");
    }
    finally
    {
    conn.Close();
    }
    }


 

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