In this article I have described how to establish connection string in your application. Establishing a connection to an Access database in Visual Basic, C# and Java are given below.
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();
}
}
Java
public void ConnectToAccess()
{
try
{
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
String database =
"jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=myDB.mdb;";
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(database, "", "");
Statement s = conn.createStatement();
conn.close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
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