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Connecting Ms Access database from outside not inside Debug

Beavon Ondari

Hello!

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I want to connect my Ms Access database from outside folder which i will put the Database and remove it from Debug folder where direct me to. Please anybody with solution or code will be helpful.

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Manikandan Murugesan9y ago
Refer the following Links : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722917.aspx

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/135361/remotely-connect-to-mysql-from-ms-access

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-to-an-Access-database-a3d6500c-4bec-40ce-8cdf-fb4edb723525
Amit Gupta9y ago
If you had hard coded the db path, DONT DO THAT. Set the db path as DataDirectory followed by slash then db name ConnectionString = "Data Source=|DataDirectory|\Database.sdf";