Connect to a Access mdb file directly using OleDbConnection
Imports System
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.Schema
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Data
Public Class MainClass
Shared Sub Main()
Try
' Define a connection object
Dim dbConn As New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Password=;User ID=Admin;Data Source=Employee.mdb")
' Create a data adapter to retrieve records from db
Dim strSELECT As String = "SELECT ID AS EmployeeID, FirstName AS FirstName, LastName AS LastName FROM Employee"
Dim daUsers As New OleDbDataAdapter(strSELECT, dbConn)
Dim dsUsers As New DataSet("Employee")
' Fill the dataset
daUsers.Fill(dsUsers)
' Go through the records and print them using the mapped names
Dim r As DataRow
For Each r In dsUsers.Tables(0).Rows
Console.WriteLine("ID: {0}, FirstName: {1}, LastName: {2}", r("EmployeeID"), r("FirstName"), r("LastName"))
Next
Catch ex As Exception
' An error occurred. Show the error message
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
End Class
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