connections string issue

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Hi All,
I have a window application in C# , with MS-Access database.I have given the following code to connect with my database:

MSIL

string str = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\\mydb.mdb";
            OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection((str));

Its running fine. But I want to give only the database file name not the whole path in Data Source.

Thanks.

Posted 10-May-11 0:31am

Uday P.Singh

Updated 10-May-11 0:52am

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Solution 1

Hi udaysama,

You can move your database file to your project folder.

I hope this help,
:)

Posted 10-May-11 0:36am

Michael Waguih

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Uday P.Singh 10-May-11 6:51am

I did what you recommended but, but its giving me an error of could not find file name..

Michael Waguih 10-May-11 6:54am

It depends on the place you have move it to !!!

Michael Waguih 10-May-11 6:56am

And be sure you are attaching the database after moving it

Solution 2

For every example I can see on http://www.connectionstrings.com/access[^]

They all seem to use a full path.

Posted 10-May-11 0:36am

Rob Branaghan

Solution 3

Hi udaysama,

you can use app.config file and add database on your debug folder.

in app.config you can set following tag

appsettings
add key="ConnectionString" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdb;Persist Security Info=True ;"

call this code on form load event.

Imports System.Configuration

Public strconnection As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")

this is help for you...

Thanks
Mukesh

Posted 10-May-11 1:12am

mukesh_panth

Updated 10-May-11 1:26am

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Ashishmau · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10T01:21:00

Solution 4

keep ur database file in Debug folder of your application then
change ur connectionstring as

C++

string strFilepath = ".\\mydb.mdb";

MSIL

string str = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="+strFilepath+"";
            
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection((str));

Posted 10-May-11 1:21am

Ashishmau