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hey guys i really can't solve this problem, hope you can help me.

the problem is, i use this codes to get the data type of a column from an access database

Form12.ListView1.Items(j).SubItems.Add(myData.Rows(i)!DATA_TYPE)

but what displays in my listview are numbers like (130 , 3 so on..).
How can i get their actual data type like (text,number and so on..)

i've already spent hours searching the web and tried different codes like casting it to string/oledbtype but it still don't work..

please help.

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Those numbers are the data types. They should be defined in one of the header files you have to include in your program. Here is a complete list.

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Use myData.Columns("column_name").ColumnType.ToString() or myData.Columns(column_ordinal).ColumnType.ToString()

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