VS 2010 Copying Db Fields To Variables?

I have been using VB a fair bit in the past developing a Access Database, recently I wanted to give my front end interface a bit more power so I have started learning VS 2010.

Anyways, I am still using Access for my databases and i am having a bit of trouble working with the data in VS 2010, what i would like is the following:

A way to form a string or integer from a SQL query (from a single field or multiple on that row) assuming the query will always return one row.

Then a way to write string or integer variables back in to db fields.

example:

Dim cn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|ItemRegisterDB.mdb")
Dim cmd As New OleDb.OleDbCommand With {.Connection = cn, .CommandText = "select * from tblItemregister where ItemID = 1"}

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Example = ??? 'What would i need here to copy fields from that row to string?