![]() For most intends and purposes this is what you would expect if you are developing your application. This is often overlooked by your seniors, because we are so used to clicking through yes, yes, yes in prompts.Ĭlick “Yes”. Now be mindful of the dialog that appears: Under the “Data Source” tab, select “Add new data source”.Ĭhoose “Database” -> “Dataset” -> “DB.accdb”, and click “Next”. Expand “Tables” and you should see a Maid table there. Open up “Data Connecions” in your server explorer and you should see “DB.accdb”. Leave the database credentials to their default as they are not important. I’d recommend not being too smart to get the 64-bit version Visual Studio will be looking for the 32-bit driver that unless you explicitly asked it to look for the 64-bit version.Īnyhow, after you’ve done this, clicking “Test Connection” will result in “Connection Succeeded”. This is important as it is also needed for deployment your program will output this exception when you run without it: You need to install it some drivers: 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components. The ‘.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine. Should you come accross an error that says: In “Data Source”, change it to use “Microsoft Access Database File”, then select your database directory to locate your *.accdb file. In server explorer (View > Server Explorer to show). In Visual Studio, create a Windows Forms Application with visual basic as the language of choice. Once you’re done checking out the database, save whatever changes you’ve made and close Access before proceeding to the next step. This makes your database file size smaller: TIP: After you’re finalized your database or updated it, you should compact the database. I will be uploading the sample database used though: ![]() There are plenty of guides out there to refer to. I won’t go through much of how to create and manage Access databases in this tutorial. The tutorial itself is really a no brainer, though I expect you know a thing or 2 about coding before proceeding. So anyhow, call my Googling skills are subpar, but the most recent tutorial by Microsoft on connecting your VB.NET app to Access is here, and it’s pretty dated. So I decided I’d write my own, after banging my head a bit. In our batch it just so happens the lecturers decided that for our prototype app we no longer have the freedom to choose whatever language and frameworks we want but forced to use visual basic. So the target audience is my fellow degree friends at MMU taking a notorious subject called Software Engineering Fundamentals. In this post I’m running through trying to get your VB.NET program to read and write to an Access database (*.accdb, *.mdb). ![]()
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