New to VB...looking for some help...

[CCG3]

Hello everyone, I am very new to VB.net (and programming for that matter) and I am trying to get a handle on it. I am trying to understand datasets, data grid, data adapter, data connection and how they all work together. I have found a few tutorials that helped a little but most have been for VB.net to an SQL database and I am trying to use this with an Access 2003 database not SQL. Does anyone know of any good tutorials that explains this with an Access DB? I am sure I will have tons more questions. I appreciate any help that you can offer to me. I can give more specific information about what I am trying to do but at this point I think would be best if I learned more about the process rather than waste your time trying to teach me.

[Keith Malwitz]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/cf131f6b.aspx[^] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms171893.aspx[^] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms172560.aspx[^] Hope this helps get you started.

[Guffa]

You can use most of the tutorials for the SQL Server database with very small changes. What differs is the connections string, and the name of the classes that you use. For an example you use OleDbConnection instead of SqlConnection and OleDbCommand instead of SqlCommand, but they work almost exactly the same. You have to get to much more advanced stuff before ever seeing any difference at all, apart from the connection string and the naming of the classes. You can get examples of connectionstring on connectionstrings.com[^].

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