Could not find installable ISAM.

[Dan]

Hi,

My global.asax contains this:
Sub Session_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
Dim oConnection As New OleDbConnection()
oConnection.ConnectionString =
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("newres")
oConnection.Open()
Session("oConnection") = oConnection
End Sub

My web.config contains this:
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="newres"
value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DataSource=c:\mydb.mdb" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>

When starting the application, i get:

"Could not find installable ISAM".

Thanks for help.
Dan

 

[Paul Clement]

On Fri, 26 May 2006 10:34:52 +0200, "Dan" <sd> wrote:

¤ Hi,
¤
¤ My global.asax contains this:
¤ Sub Session_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
¤ Dim oConnection As New OleDbConnection()
¤ oConnection.ConnectionString =
¤ System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("newres")
¤ oConnection.Open()
¤ Session("oConnection") = oConnection
¤ End Sub
¤
¤ My web.config contains this:
¤ <configuration>
¤ <appSettings>
¤ <add key="newres"
¤ value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DataSource=c:\mydb.mdb" />
¤ </appSettings>
¤ </configuration>
¤
¤ When starting the application, i get:
¤
¤ "Could not find installable ISAM".
¤
¤ Thanks for help.
¤ Dan
¤

The "DataSource" parameter in your connection string should be two words:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\mydb.mdb

Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

 

[Dan]

Thanks

 

[sloan]

Yeah, 9 times out of 10 when I have had this problem, I search google, but
end up finding I have a syntax error in my connection string.
OR
I try an alternate form of the connection string

www.connectionstrings.com