The purpose of this sample application is to demonstrate the utilization of various controls in VB.NET that will allow you to access, view and display records in an MS Access database.
I have tried to demonstrate, through usage of various procedures, functions and events how to:
(1) Initializing a new Connection to an Access Database using the OpenFileDialog to search for the particular database,
(2) Display records in a TreeView Control,
(3) By selecting and expanding any one of the TreeView Nodes, you will be able to view selected items in a recordset in a DataGridView Control utilizing a DataTable as the DataSource,
(4) Create, and populate selected items in an HTML report,
(5) Display the HTML report(s) in a WebBrowser Control,
(6) Display the HTML reports in your default browser.
References: Add a reference to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library in order to access the MS Access Database.
NOTE: If you using a version of VB.NET older than VB2008, you must first create a new project and than import all the files in this sample project before running it.
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I definitely claim copyright to some of the source code utilized within this project. I have also utilized source code from various other coders, too many to mention at this point, and have tried my best to mention their names here within, if not, my apologies.
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It is merely a naming convention have I have incorporated in my code.
Examples: Module-level variables can be named utilizing different prefixes, denoting some kind of significance to the programmer, for example the prefix "mvar", as below, Dim mvarLastName As String = "", etc.
Similarly, variables can also be declared utilizing prefixes denoting data type, eg. Dim m_strLastName As String, Dim m_lngMaritalStatusID As Long, etc.
Procedures are named, "Private Sub processPublisherInformation()", where the first letter naming the procedure is in lower case.
Functions are named with an underscore, eg., "Private Function _GetMaritalStatusID(ByVal lpMaritalStatus As String) As Long".
Forms have a prefix "frm", eg., "frmPublisher". Modules the prefix "mod", eg. "modFunctionLibrary", Classes are name with the prefix "cls", etc., you get the idea.
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Great job. I converted the Biblio.mdb to Access 2007 .accdb format and tried to connect to it but got an error saying "Unrecognized database format". Can this work with Access 2007 database?
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