需要部署MS Access DB

Question

I have a requirement for which I have to use MS Access as database(backend) and C# windows app as frontend. I need to deploy this application on multiuser connected on LAN. So the DB is on central sever and the app installed on indivdual machines. I tried using System DSN to connect the MS Access DB but could not. Please someone help with connectionstring.

Thanks, Kanaya

Answer 1

You don't say why you couldn't connect to the database, but the simplest way is to use the OleDb provider for Jet (assuming of course that you have Jet installed on the client machines)

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

//
// Code ...
//

OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\\MyServer\Mydb.mdb");
conn.open();

//
// Use connection ...
//