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hallo can someone please help me my Access Database ConnectionString does not work on the server

string strConnString =
            "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|calculator.mdb";
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hallo can someone please help me my Access Database ConnectionString does not work on the server

string strConnString =
            "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|calculator.mdb";

Hello.

The '|' looks a bit fishy, I think the normal syntax is '\' ??
I would recommend you to add a '@' in front of the string, as it tells the program to read the string "as is".

string strConnString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\temp\Nwind.mdb";

Hope it helps!

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