urecognized database format

[Humberto]

I'm writing a program in visual basic 6.0 and when I try to link the program to a ACCESS 2000 Database it gives me an error that says, URECOGNIZED DATABASE FORMAT followed by the path of the access database. Can someone Please HELP ME!. All help will be appreciated. thanks

 

[scottfarcus]

Humberto,

First, check out www.VBForums.com. It may be a little more the type of support you're looking for.

How did you set up the connection in your data environment? For an Access 2K database, you should be using the Jet 4.0 provider. You may have accidentally used the 3.51 Jet which is for 97 databases.

Let me know.

Good luck.

 

[boats02]

What version of VB are you using?

I had the exact same problem. I updated to Visual Studio Service Pack 5. That fixed the problem.

It basically occurs because the databound control is only set for Access97 Jet. Access 2000 uses a new version. Installing the service pack will give you a new database type of "Access 2000" and should solve the problem.

Hope this helps.

-Brian

 

[Humberto]

thank you, I installed service pack 3,4 & 5 and it worked with access 2000.