can anyone help with information on how you can use visual basic to connect to a ms db for the purposes of retrieving and storing data to tables in a ms db.i think that any one who can post sample code will help around the problem
If you are using VB.NET then Code: Imports System.Data.OleDb Public Class Form1 Dim da As OleDbDataAdapter Dim ds As New DataSet Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source =C:\db1.mdb;") 'you can edit the source as you like.... Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load da = New OleDbDataAdapter("Select * from student", con) 'student is table's name con.Open() da.Fill(ds, "student") End Sub 'This is basic, i would advise you to read books for more or Google it. If you are using VB6 then it different method for this. You will need to add Reference manually to the Project and it's called ADODB Code: Public con As New ADODB.Connection 'Database connection string Public rsMain As New ADODB.Recordset 'Database record set Private Sub ConnectToDB con.Open ("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\db1.mdb") rsMain.Open "Select * from Table1", con, OpenDynamic, LockOptimistic 'Now you can use rsMain to retrieve and add data to your database End Sub It seems like you have never done this before so I would advice you to read books and gain knowledge on how Databases work, as it'll be very helpful in future. And don't forget GOOGLE.
