Combo box list does not show up after connecting database

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Public Sub UserForm_Initialize()
On Error GoTo UserForm_Initialize_Err
Dim cnn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset
cnn.Open("Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source=" & Application.StartupPath & "\Attendance.mdb")
rst.Open("SELECT DISTINCT Department FROM Attendance;")
cnn.adOpenStatic()

rst.MoveFirst()

With Me.ComboBox1
.Items.Clear()

Do

.Items.Add(rst![Departments])
rst.MoveNext()
Loop Until rst.EOF
End With
UserForm_Initialize_Exit:
On Error Resume Next
rst.Close()
cnn.Close()
rst = Nothing
cnn = Nothing
Exit Sub
UserForm_Initialize_Err:
MsgBox(Err.Number & vbCrLf & Err.Description, vbCritical, "Error!")
Resume UserForm_Initialize_Exit

What I have tried:

.Items.Add(rst![Departments])
changed this .Items.Add(rst.fields())

Posted 7-Aug-16 7:15am

Member 12674139

Updated 7-Aug-16 15:30pm

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Patrice T · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-07T07:28:00

You should learn to use the debugger as soon as possible. Rather than guessing what your code is doing, It is time to see your code executing and ensuring that it does what you expect.

The debugger allow you to follow the execution line by line, inspect variables and you will see that there is a point where it stop doing what you expect.
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ProgrammingEnthusiast · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-07T15:30:00

Solution 2

can you change this :

rst.Open("SELECT DISTINCT Department FROM Attendance;")
cnn.adOpenStatic()

to this:
cnn.adOpenStatic()
rst.Open("SELECT DISTINCT Department FROM Attendance;")

Posted 7-Aug-16 15:30pm

ProgrammingEnthusiast

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Member 12674139 8-Aug-16 1:03am

I tried above solution but still the list does not show up in combobox