This group is for Microsoft Access issues. This is not an Access issue. (If
you didn't start the Access program, you're not using Access.)

As you are asking about reading the data from another program, it is a issue
of that program.

You mention VB.NET, so this is a VB.NET or Visual Studio .NET issue.

In the future, for Visual Studio and .NET problems, use one of the 12 Visual
Studio or 49 .NET groups.

The 49 .NET groups all start with microsoft.public.dotnet.

The 12 Visual Studio groups all start with microsoft.public.vsnet.

Because you mention VB.NET and data in your question, I would think that
"microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.data" would be a perfect group to ask
this kind of question.

In the meantime, you might take a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823927.

Good luck.

Sco

M.L. "Sco" Scofield, Microsoft Access MVP, MCSD, MCP, MSS, A+
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