I'm aware that this is surely very amateurish, but I am having a real problem trying to simply assign an Integer-type variable in VB.NET 2003 to a field in an Access database. I have tried things like:
and I get an exception error. I also don't understand why, if my field is named, for example, fldStr, I can only select fldStrColumn. I am very new to database programming and would greatly appreciate any help. Thank in advance!

Usually you work with a dataset through the various collections contained within it. Something like this:

dsCharacterTables.Tables("tblPCs").Rows(0)("fldStr Column")

-Peter

Thanks very much! That worked perfectly.