Below is the full source code for our page. It contains the HTML and VB.net code that makes up our page. It’s important to note that the VB.Net code is placed within the page_load event. This just means that every time the page is requested the page_load event is raised or run and the code we’ve written is executed.
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data.Oledb" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim Connection As OledbConnection
Connection = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.Oledb.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\code\Customers.mdb")
Connection.Open()
Dim Command As OleDbCommand
Command = New OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM tblCustomers", Connection)
Dim DataReader As OleDbDataReader
DataReader = Command.ExecuteReader()
GridView1.DataSource = DataReader
GridView1.DataBind()
Connection.Close()
End Sub
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Read from MS Access Database</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:GridView ID=GridView1 runat="server">
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Here’s how our records display in a browser. The Gridview control is specific to ASP.NET 2.0 so make sure that’s what you’re running either on your local server or with your hosting company. As you can see below the Gridview renders records in a tabular format.
Just in case there are no records to display we could set the Gridview’s emptydatatext property to ‘There are no records’ as below.
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