Connecting to ACCDB format MS-ACCESS database through OLEDB

Marcelo picture Marcelo · Mar 3, 2010 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

I've recently made another question about connecting to MS-ACCESS database with .NET in C# or VB.NET. It worked just as intended with MDB, but with accdb it caused an exception in

conn.Open();

which follows:

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Is there another way to do this? My original intention (like stated in the original question) is gathering some (actually, a lot of) fields.

Answer

Andrey picture Andrey · Mar 3, 2010

Use ACE 4 driver, download it here then use following connection string:

"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\marcelo.accdb;Jet OLEDB:Database Password=MyDbPassword;"