I don’t get a chance to write webpage code very often, but in my early days of doing samples, it was common to use an Access database. Access 2007 is the latest version available. The drivers weren’t installed on my Windows Server 2008 server when I was trying to run an example. I got the following error.
The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine.
A quick search found the add-on, the link is listed below. I don’t recommend using Access for medium or higher volume applications, SQL Server or another database is appropriate. This was a fun exercise and I wanted to share my experience. Hope this helps.
2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=7554f536-8c28-4598-9b72-ef94e038c891&displayLang=en
My sample
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http://iislogs.com/articles/access2007/authors.aspx
Download the code
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http://iislogs.com/articles/access2007/authors.zip
Sample Code
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<%@ Page Language=”VB” AutoEventWireup=”false” CodeFile=”authors.aspx.vb” Inherits=”_IISLogscom” %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//D
TD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“>
<head runat=”server”>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”form1″ runat=”server”>
AllowSorting=”True” AutoGenerateColumns=”False” DataKeyNames=”ID”
DataSourceID=”SqlDataSource1″>
ReadOnly=”True” SortExpression=”ID” />
SortExpression=”Field1″ />
SortExpression=”Field2″ />
SortExpression=”Field3″ />
ConnectionString=””
ProviderName=””
SelectCommand=”SELECT [ID], [Field1], [Field2], [Field3] FROM [Authors]”>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Code Behind
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Partial Class _IISLogscom
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
End Class
Web.config file
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<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<configuration>
<connectionStrings>
<add name=”ConnectionString” connectionString=”Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source="/App_Data/authors.accdb"” providerName=”System.Data.OleDb” />
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>
Cheers,
Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP – IIS
Pondering Thought 