hi, im new here and to VB.net. I am trying to make a phone book program that calls in names and numbers from an access(.mdb) file. if you could just give me the piece of code(if there is a way) that lets you get data from a seperate file instead of hard coding phone numbers.

 

thanks

You need to set up an ODBC on your system code a connection string into your VB page to reference the mdb.

 

It's not something that is easily copied and pasted from one app to the next.

 

Try a quick google search there are hundreds of sites explaining how to do this.

 

Although if it's just for phone numbers it might be worth looking into XML rather than using a db - this makes your data useable by many different applications and devices including some mobile phones.

thanks for the info, thats really what i needed just a basis of what to search for on google.

 

I think ill try xml, thanks again.