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I have an access database that resides on the network. What is the recommended method of verifying connectivity with this database before connecting the program. I'd basically just like to do a ping test or something to determine if the server is found if not throw a message.
Thanks all!
You could do a File Exsists check. What version of VB are you using?
2005. Would that work better than a ping test? Looking for something that could run fairly quick as well.
Thanks!
That should be quick. Try Sustem.IO.FileExsist(filename)
Wouldn't it be simpler, and far less code, to just error trap the connection code, and run with it?
Can you give me a code example of the error trap? Thanks!
That would the depend on the programing language you are using
Visual Basic
VB6? VB.Net 2003? .Net 2005? .Net 2008?
If you are using VB.NET 2005, then you would use the Try/Catch/Finally method of error trapping.