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They will still have to install the CE prereq. I created an application that merely opened the database from the hard drive. Yes true they will have to install the CE prereq Show 1 more comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Hi Friends Can u please give me a little example of connection string with ado.

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See more: VB9. Posted Jun am Heba Kamel. Add a Solution. Vedat Ozan Oner Jun pm. Top Rated Most Recent. Accept Solution Reject Solution. A working example of the connection string will be shown, which you can copy and paste into your app or config file.

Posted Jun am OriginalGriff. Heba Kamel Jun am. Copy Code. Posted Jun am Jafarinejadvazifehkhorani. If you are looking to obtain the state of an SQL connection before you open it you can use this if statement:. If I can't directly open the. You then use a connection string to connect to the SQL server instance and read, write and query the data as you are already.

MDF and other handy stuff using these commands. Other than using a full blown server you could use an Access database to store the data, if there isn't lots of it, all that it requires is the correct drivers which I think are standard on most windows based machines anyway.

Thank you for your time and help, after some fiddling and with that site I managed to open up the database file, now I'm going to test whether I can run SQL queries on it and such.

Thanks once again, I'll keep that site bookmarked :D. Please read what's in front of you. In big bold letters it states This question has already been solved: Start a new discussion instead. It was put there for a reason. If you aren't going to read what's in front of you then there is no point an anyone trying to post help. Also, you obviously didn't read this or you would have provided some details.

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