How to Connect Access Database to VB.Net
Today I will show you how to Connect Access Database to VB.Net. This tutorial will be a big help for those individuals who finds difficulties in connecting the MS Access database to Visual Basic.
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How to Connect Access Database to vb.net
- Step 1: Create MS Access Database
n creating MS access database name it as “firstDB” then create a table named “tblstudent” and this looks like as shown below.
- Step 2: Create a VB.Net Application
Create Visual Basic Application then Add a button this will look like as shown below.
- Step 3: Declare con for “oledbconnection”
In this step, we will now add functionality to our application. To do this, double click our form and the following code below Public class:
- Step 4: Add code to Test Connection Button
In this step, double click the “Test Connection” button and add the following code:
- Step 5: Add code under the connection string
- Step 6: Run the Project
Press “F5” to run and test the program.
Code Explanation
Here’s all the code to connect the access database to vb.net with an explanation.
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Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection |
The code above simply Initializes a new instance of the OleDbConnection class.
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conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & Application.StartupPath & "\firstDB.accdb" |
The added line of code, we simply use the two technologies called: Provider and Data Source.
Without this, we cannot connect to our database because this is where we specify what type of database provider and the Data source of our database used for this connection.
And we use also the “Application.StartupPath” where it is the path for the executable file that has started the application, and this location also where we are going to put our database file.
conn.ConnectionString = “Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=” & Application.StartupPath & “\firstDB.accdb”
Under the code above, add another set of code:
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Try 'opens the connection conn.Open() If conn.State = ConnectionState.Open Then MsgBox("MS Database Connected!") End If Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) End Try 'close the connection conn.Close() |
The newly added sets of code will simply check if the connection between Visual Basic.Net and MS Access database has been established successfully.
Download:
You can download the source code here.connectingvbtomsaccess
Reminder!
Make sure that the database file is located inside the debug folder.
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