I have a small and simple program. I am accessing an Access 2003 database that has seven columns:
ID-AutoNumber (3) - Primary Key
Business-Text (40)
Address-Text (40)
City-Text (20)
Phone-Text (14)
URL-Text (255)
Map-Text (255)
In VB, under Data Sources, I set five to textbox and the last two to linklabel. I then dragged each to my form. When I run the program, everything works, navigation and data displayed. However, I have not been able to figure out how to have the URL and Map (linklabels) when clicked to open into a browser. I have found many sites on the web that gives me example code to hard code one specific linklabel to be presented as a hyperlink, but have not found a solution to making a linklabel a hyperlink when the data is filled from an Access database. I am also trying to figure out how to mask the data. For example, I want URL http://www.google.com to display as Homepage, and http://maps.google.com to display as Directions. I have limited experience in progamming, and have read most of what I have learned. I have forgotten most of the programming I learned in several college courses from many years ago. Thanks in advance for any help or direction anyone may have for me.