Hello,

I am a beginning programmer. Problem:

I am trying to open a Microsoft ACCESS database using OLEDB. The exception raised when trying to open the .MDB is "database is not registered on this machine"

Here is the code I am using:

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDB;

namespace Wrox.BeginningCSharpDatabases.Chapter05
{
  class Connection_OleDB {
    static void Main()
    {
      OleDBConnection thisConnection = new OleDBConnection(
                               @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
                                @"Data Source=c:\Northwind.MDB"

    // Open connection
    thisConnection.Open();
    }//end Main

No access databases will open. I am able to open SQL databases (by changing appropriate references)just fine.

How do you register an Access database on the local (or) remote machine???

Thanks so much in advance,

Baffled,
Saxitalis

Odd exception. Your code shouldn't even compile. Remember, C# is case sensitive,
so OleDB and OleDb are not the same identifier. Also, your connection string
needs to be closed with a closing paren and semi-colon. The code below should
open a connection for you, provided you are running a Windows application. Things
are a bit different with ASP.NET Web applications, because you need to take user
authentication and authorization into account, usually by impersonating your NT
authentication account.

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
   class Class1
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         OleDbConnection thisConnection = new OleDbConnection(
                  @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
                  @"Data Source=c:\Northwind.MDB");

    // Open connection
    thisConnection.Open();

      }
   }
}

HTH,

Bob