Universal Way To Connecting To Excel Through OleDB Connection?
Nov 17, 2011
A While back I developed a application that connected to Excel using DB connection. It worked fine since the application was designed for usage on one particular PC with Excel 2003. I especially liked the solution since the data retrieval was much faster compared to what I would get if I connected to Excel using Interop libraries.
However, recently when I tried to implement the same solution onto another app that would run on various PC that could use different versions of MS Office I ran into multiple problems. First of all, I can't use the same connection string on various versions. Also, the whole x64 vs x86 thing is adding to the problem.
I wonder if there is a way to check the version and use the apropriate connection string for every version?
For my current Project I need to fetch the data from an excel file.Each second the data in the excel file is changing... What I want to do is, copy it from the excel and Validate it in every second.So I use an Oledb connection to get the data from Excel file... s working excellent for two hours... After 2 hours I am getting an error that"the connection for viewing your linked microsoft excel worksheet was lost......"
I'm trying to connect excel sheet with VB 2008 in my project, but it show a error message: A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in System.Data.dll
I have this program that uses OLEDB connection to import excel file to data table then use it in other functions.Now I have this question: What are the possible limitations of OLEDB when it reads the Excel file. The File is on xls format, and I want to know if there is such limitations(for example: It has limitation in reading value on a cell).
The connection string generated by VB only works for my computer because of the path and even tho within the program I used paths which only include the name of the file i need to load when i do that with the DB it doesn't works.
This is the message i get: An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file Database1.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
Just wondering if i might hit a snag in my program. Ive got 10+ users using the same files, via a Oledb to put info into an excel spreadsheet. If 2 or more people save there file at the same time will the program go into read only on one person. Normally one 3 will use the file at one time. I know Sql itself would be better to use. best way i can describe it, normally using excel if you manage to open the same file twice one opens as normal but the other opens as a Read only file, will the same thing happen if im using Oledb connections?
I am trying to connect DSN from my VB 2008 project. When i try using myoledb.connectionstring="DSN=myDNSname" I get the following error message An OLEDB provider was not specified in the connectionstring.
i want to ask what is the difference between oledb connection and odbc connection. I have a case, my office used ncomputing then i have to developed an application using sqlserver 2000 and vb.net 2005, i used oledb connection. When i try to implement it in ncomputing, why user must has admin access level and dbo level in sql server, it seems trouble when all users are admin. But there's a rumor that when using odbc connection, we dont need to give admin access level for users.es.
I've recently made another question about connecting to MS-ACCESS database with .NET in C# or VB.NET. It worked just as intended with MDB, but with accdb it caused an exception in
conn.Open();which follows:
Is there another way to do this? My original intention (like stated in the original question) is gathering some (actually, a lot of) fields.
I am trying to retrieve the data from EXCEL 2003 spreadsheet from row 8 onwards because from Row 1 to Row 7 the row is merged columns from A1 to K1, A2 to K2, A3 to K3, A4 to K4, A5 to K5, A6 to K6, A7 to K7.
Im looking into learning OLEdb to run with Excel, Where do i start? has anyone got the full default sample code? and how do i need to set up the Excel test file. Sounds daft but im looking at the system namespace for it and its just looking bafling. What not to put on an Employee evaluation: This employee has hit rock bottom and shows signs of starting to dig.
How do I fix this error? I'm using asp.net Compilation Error.Description: Error compiling a resource required to service this request. Review your source file and modify it to fix this error.
Compiler Error Message: CS1519: Unexpected symbol `Dim' in class, struct, or interface member declaration
Not entirely sure where I've gone wrong with this, basically the problem is I have an access database linked and currently I can create new entries successfully but when I edit a record and the user attempts to save back to the database it throws up the below error.[code]...
i am trying to make an employee database. The front end to be used is vb.net and the backend to be in MSACCESS. I have created some tables with employee details in foxpro6, this table is to be accessed through vb.net. I want to make an OLEDB connection also. What is to be tried for this. How can create a connection to MSACCESS(.mdb) with a link to the foxpro6 tables (.dbf). I tried to add the tables by clinking link table in MSaccess. But that didnt work out .
How can i make ms access and vb.net program setup compatible with windows 7. my program setup give oledb connection error in windows 7 but it successfully run in xp.
have this program that uses OLEDB connection in order to import the excel sheet into datatable, now I am using windows xp and the server that I'm about to use would be in windows 7, what connection string do I need in order for me to connect to my excel file,
How to use the existing OLEDB connection Manager from script-task Task(VB). i need to execute a SQL statement from "Script Task" Task. Attempted the following code but couldn't get the connection with my OLEDB Connection-manager [Code]
I am trying to create a log in screen for my program using data from an access database. I am trying to load the data from the database so that I can use it to check if a username and password combination is valid.
I have a problem with Oledb connection when I am trying to open an Excel spreadsheet:
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This piece of code works well on one computer, but on another the IMEX=1 doesn't seem to work, and the Jet seems to read the first few rows of the Excel spreadsheet that are numeric and decides that the whole spreadsheet is numeric, so it ignores some String values later in the sheet.
I have a script that checks a version table from one mdb (server) and compares it to the same table in another mdb (user folder), if the version number is mismatched it needs to replace that file from the server, to the user folder. The problem is, how to get the OLEDB connection to the user folder since, the folder destination is E:Configurator & UserName & Detail2004.mdb How to set this up?
Here is my code: Dim UserName As String = Environment.UserName.Substring(Environment.UserName.LastIndexOf("") + 1) Dim connectionString2 As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=C:Configurator" & UserName & "Detail2004.mdb" Dim con2 As New Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString2) Dim cmd2 As Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
what do connection strings depend on? like is there different strings on the basis of access version you use or on the .net framework used.. or is there some other criteria?i made a project with vb 2010, .net framework 4.0, access 2007 (.accdb), using icrosoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 as Provideri need to make it run on a system with no vb, .net framework 4.0, access 2003 (.mdb)
