Please look at my code and let me know what it is that I am doing wrong. Imports System.Data Imports System.Data.OleDb Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load TODO: This line of code loads data into the BowlingDataSet.Bowl table. You can move, or remove it, as needed. Me.BowlTableAdapter.Fill(Me.BowlingDataSet.Bowl) Dim connString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\bowling.mdb" Dim myConnection As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection myConnection.ConnectionString = connString create a data adapter Dim da As OleDbDataAdapter = New OleDbDataAdapter("Select * from Bowl", myConnection) create a new dataset Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet fill dataset da.Fill