Problem running datacontrol.aspx in Chapter 2

andersond · October 8th, 2003, 05:12 AM

When I run the datacontrol.aspx from Chapter 2 I am receiving the following message:
"Could not find installable ISAM"

Please could anyone advise me what could be causing this message.

Details of software:
XP professional running IIS and Visual Studio.Net 2003.

David Anderson

aptbid2002 · October 8th, 2003, 09:24 AM

can you post your code.

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AndyS · October 17th, 2003, 06:42 AM

I'm having the same problem, my code is exactly as it is in the book excepct my path to the database is different ie

strConnect += @"Data Source=C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\";
strConnect += @"v1.1\QuickStart\aspplus\samples\grocertogo\data" ;
strConnect += @"\grocertogo.mdb;";

aptbid2002 · October 20th, 2003, 07:51 PM

Hello all,

Well I did alittle research on MS knowledge base and this is what I came up with. This error "Could not find installable ISAM" is related to an Access driver. Follow the link below to get all the details.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;209805

Jason

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cjo · October 24th, 2003, 01:16 PM

If connecting to Access is the issue, go to the subsection in Chapter 1 titled "Configuring Directory Security" (beginning on page 42 of my book), and make sure you've followed the instructions in this section to add the ASPNET user account with correct permissions.

aptbid2002 · October 29th, 2003, 07:45 PM

Found out that not putting a space between 'data source' in your code will cause this error to happen.

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