Get contents of laccdb file through VBA

Question

I want to be able to view the contents of my access database's laccdb file through VBA so I can use it to alert users (through a button) who else is in the database.

I specifically don't want to use a 3rd Party tool. I have tried using:

Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(strFile, ForReading)
strContents = ts.ReadAll

This works fine if only 1 user is in the database. But for multiple users it gets confused by the presumably non-ASCII characters and goes into this kind of thing after one entry:

Does anyone have any suggestions? It's fine if I just open the file in Notepad++...

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Code eventually used is as follows (I didn't need the title and have removed some code not being used):

Sub ShowUserRosterMultipleUsers()
Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection, rs As New ADODB.Recordset

cn.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
cn.Open "Data Source=" & CurrentDb.Name

Set rs = cn.OpenSchema(adSchemaProviderSpecific, , "{947bb102-5d43-11d1-bdbf-00c04fb92675}")
While Not rs.EOF
    Debug.Print rs.Fields(0)
    rs.MoveNext
Wend

End Sub

Answer 1

I found this which should help, it's not actually reading the ldb file, but it has the info that you need (Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/198755):

Sub ShowUserRosterMultipleUsers()
    Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection
    Dim cn2 As New ADODB.Connection
    Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
    Dim i, j As Long

    cn.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
    cn.Open "Data Source=c:\Northwind.mdb"

    cn2.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" _
    & "Data Source=c:\Northwind.mdb"

    ' The user roster is exposed as a provider-specific schema rowset
    ' in the Jet 4 OLE DB provider.  You have to use a GUID to
    ' reference the schema, as provider-specific schemas are not
    ' listed in ADO's type library for schema rowsets

    Set rs = cn.OpenSchema(adSchemaProviderSpecific, _
    , "{947bb102-5d43-11d1-bdbf-00c04fb92675}")

    'Output the list of all users in the current database.

    Debug.Print rs.Fields(0).Name, "", rs.Fields(1).Name, _
    "", rs.Fields(2).Name, rs.Fields(3).Name

    While Not rs.EOF
        Debug.Print rs.Fields(0), rs.Fields(1), _
        rs.Fields(2), rs.Fields(3)
        rs.MoveNext
    Wend

End Sub