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Programming Tutorial 31
6. Click the Test Connection button in the Add Connection dialog box. The “Test connection succeeded.”
message appears in a dialog box. Click the OK button to close the dialog box.
7. Click the OK button to close the Add Connection dialog box. Trivia.mdb now appears in the Choose your data
connection screen. Click the Next button. The computer displays the Local database file dialog box shown in
Figure H.41.
FIGURE H.41
Local database file dialog box
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8. Click the Yes button to add the Trivia.mdb file to the current project. The Save the Connection String to the
Application Configuration File screen shown in Figure H.42 appears next. If necessary, select the check box.
Verify that this check box is selected
FIGURE H.42
Save the Connection String to the Application Configuration
File screen
9. Click the Next button to display the Choose Your Database Objects screen. Click the plus box that appears
before Tables, then click the plus box that appears before Game1. Notice that the database contains one table
(named Game1) and six fields. You can use this screen to select the table and/or field objects to include in the
dataset.
10. In this application, you need to include all of the fields in the dataset. Click the empty box that appears
before Game1. Doing this selects the table and field check boxes, as shown in Figure H.43.