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Could not find installable ISAM in Visual Basic

I am just creating a small project in Visual basic, for database management of some radio related information. Tried out the visual data components in VB.NET Express Edition but they were a bit confusing. So I thought of going with oledb.
Used the Oledb.Oledbconnection class but when I tried dbconn.open, i got a could not find installable isam error.

With a google search on “Could not find installable ISAM”, the best i could get was a link from microsoft which was not useful, once i tried out all the options http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;283881

However, just adding one vb.net to the search query gave me this from p2p.wrox.com and that had the solution http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3381

Subscribing to the forum right away

That’s right! I missed a blasted blankspace and wasted an hour trying to locate it.
dbconn= New OleDb.OleDbConnection(”Provider=Microsoft.Jet.Oledb.4.0; Data Source=F:\p1\p2\db.mdb”)
while the correct one should be
dbconn= New OleDb.OleDbConnection(”Provider=Microsoft.Jet.Oledb.4.0; Data Source=F:\p1\p2\db.mdb”)

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