Having some problems

[Iron23]

I am trying to make a program in VB which can display records with multiple fields. It needs to be able to search for the records. And it needs to be able to display individual records not just the whole table.

+ needs to be done in a week.

I am using access 2002 to make the database. and using Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 express edition. I am trying to learn from a pre release of "Programming with VISUAL BASIC, Using VB.NET

The book has many errors.

When I try and declare my DB into the program "Dim dbMyDB As Database"
I get the error "Error 1 Type 'Database' is not defined. "

Accoring to this

Go to Tools | References | ... and make sure Microsoft DAO is checked.

To make sure this is the cause, afterward type ... "Dim myDB as DAO.Database".
The "intelliSense" should offer a drop-down box after you type "as" offering
you a list of libraries, then again after typing/picking DAO and typing
the ".", it should offer you a choice of objects, from which you type/pick
Database.

I dont actually have preferences under Tools....any help with that one?


Also another error "
It says drag an OleDbDataAdapter onto the form, (I cannot find this on the list)"

[jmcilhinney]

If that book is for VB 2005 and it's recommending you use DAO then it's a pile of cr*p and you need to get rid of it. If it's not for VB 2005 then it's for VB6, which is a different language so you need to get rid of that book. Get a decent book for the right language or else just work through some online tutorials for VB 2005.