Can't Connect To As/400 With Vb.net

I JUST INSTALLED VB.NET BUT CANNOT CONNECT TO MY AS/400
(OS400 5.1). WHEN I TRY TO CONNECT I GET A SERVER EXPLORER MSG:

"UNABLE TO CONNNECT TO DATABASE.
IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE TO CONNECT TO SQL SERVER DESKTOP ENGINE DATABASES AND MICROSOFT ACCESS DATABASES WTIH THIS VERSION OF VISUAL STUDIO."

-What Version Of Visual Studio do I need?

(The AS/400 runs its own version of DB2)

PROVIDER:
IBM DB2 UDB FOR ISERIES OLE DB PROVIDER

I AM USING "IBM ACCESS FOR WINDOWS" (C/A) VERSION 5 RELEASE 2 SERVICE LEVEL: SI08894

You dont have to type in caps, we can read lower case.

You did not actually ask a question, rather put a statement.
In answer to your statement, you cant connect to your AS400 machine because of the reason you have already pasted:

"UNABLE TO CONNNECT TO DATABASE.
IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE TO CONNECT TO SQL SERVER DESKTOP ENGINE DATABASES AND MICROSOFT ACCESS DATABASES WTIH THIS VERSION OF VISUAL STUDIO."

The server explorer thing connects to databases, not operating systems (I could be wrong).


What part of your machine are you trying to connect to ? The OS itself or some software running on it (ie a database) ? From what I know, you have to connect via some sort of gateway as its mostly forms based anyway.

Hi.

It sounds like you have VB .NET Standard Edition. That is limited to Access and the SQL Server Desktop Engine.

You need one of the full Studio packages before you can connect to anything else.