I corrected the spelling mbd to mdb but now the error is
Micorsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query employee make sure it exist and that its name is spelled correctly.
What I want to do is connect to database and extract four fields in the texbox here is my code
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.OleDb;
namespace Empdetails
{
public partial class EGUI : Form
{
private OleDbConnection dbConn; // Connectionn object
private OleDbCommand dbCmd; // Command object
private OleDbDataReader dbReader;// Data Reader object
private Emp1 Edetails;
private string sConnection;
private string sql;
public EGUI()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender,System.EventArgs e)
{
try
{
// Construct an object of the OleDbConnection
// class to store the connection string
// representing the type of data provider
// (database) and the source (actual db)
sConnection =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
"Data Source=employee.mdb";
dbConn = new OleDbConnection(sConnection);
dbConn.Open();
// Construct an object of the OleDbCommand
// class to hold the SQL query. Tie the
// OleDbCommand object to the OleDbConnection
// object
sql = "Select * From employee";
dbCmd = new OleDbCommand();
dbCmd.CommandText = sql;
dbCmd.Connection = dbConn;
// Create a dbReader object
dbReader = dbCmd.ExecuteReader();
while (dbReader.Read())
{
Edetails = new Emp1
(dbReader["Name"].ToString(), dbReader["Address"].ToString(), dbReader["SocialSecurityNumber"].ToString(), dbReader["Rate"].ToString());
textBox1.Text = dbReader["Name"].ToString();
textBox2.Text = dbReader["Address"].ToString();
textBox3.Text = dbReader["SocialSecurityNumber"].ToString();
textBox4.Text = dbReader["Rate"].ToString();
// tb1.Text = dbReader["FirstName"].ToString();
} // tb2.Text = dbReader["LastName"].ToString();
dbReader.Close();
dbConn.Close();
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("exeption" + ex.ToString());
}
}
private void EGUI_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
Tim and binil are right, you need to provide the full path. I tested your code and it works when you add the full path
try
{
// Construct an object of the OleDbConnection
// class to store the connection string
// representing the type of data provider
// (database) and the source (actual db)
string sConnection =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
"Data Source=C:\\Code\\StackOverflowSamples\\ReadFromAccessDB\\employee.mdb";
using (OleDbConnection dbConn = new OleDbConnection(sConnection))
{
dbConn.Open();
// Construct an object of the OleDbCommand
// class to hold the SQL query. Tie the
// OleDbCommand object to the OleDbConnection
// object
string sql = "Select * From employee";
OleDbCommand dbCmd = new OleDbCommand();
dbCmd.CommandText = sql;
dbCmd.Connection = dbConn;
// Create a dbReader object
using (OleDbDataReader dbReader = dbCmd.ExecuteReader())
{
while (dbReader.Read())
{
Console.WriteLine(dbReader["EmployeeName"].ToString());
Console.WriteLine(dbReader["Address"].ToString());
Console.WriteLine(dbReader["SSN"].ToString());
Console.WriteLine(dbReader["Rate"].ToString());
}
}
}
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("exeption" + ex.ToString());
}
Console.ReadLine();
}