Hi all,

I've just started working through 'Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET' and I'm having some trouble with the examples in the book. I'm at the point where I'm trying to bind to a database (chapter 2, example datacontrol.aspx) and I'm getting the following error from my browser:

Server Error in '/5040' Application.
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'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\Samples\quickstar t\aspplus\samples\grocertogo\data\grocertogo.mdb' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\Samples\quickstar t\aspplus\samples\grocertogo\data\grocertogo.mdb' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides.

This does kind of make sense, the default location that the .NET SDK installed to is nowhere near the '5040' virtual directory containing the code examples. What is going on here?

Have I hugely missed something or is this a massive publishing typo?

Any help would be appreciated, this is driving me nuts!

Thanks all.

move grocertogo.mdb into another folder like:

C:\DB\grocertogo.mdb

Also check the spelling of the database.

Thanks for the suggestion. Upon further investigation however, it transpires that the code supplied in the book (and on this website) gives the wrong path to the database and should be:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\QuickStart\aspplus\sa mples\grocertogo\data\grocertogo.mdb

NOT

C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\Samples\quickstar t
\aspplus\samples\grocertogo\data\grocertogo.mdb

Thanks again for your suggestion.