Use Alias to reference data
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