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Managed to make an ACCESS connection from Visual Studio 17 using C#. The following link provides an an Microsoft Access data base engine. This link provides 32 & 64 bit editions. Despite having a 64 bit machine - MicroSoft OFFICE Pro appears to be 32 (though I do understand somewhere there are...

Many thanks - looks like this is the area to focus on. I have also tried to install code directly and get messages like 'the OLEDB 12 provider is not recognized on the local machine.' Will spend more time tomorrow (I am in UK)

Just created a database in access and would like to retrieve data from a C# windows forms application. My first attempt failed with unrecognized database format. I sort of think I am missing something very simple like 'using System.xxxxxx The database seems fine - i.e. can click on the address...

Thanks again John - very helpful

A non-breaking space Many thanks - I'll have a 'play' with this option.

A non-breaking space Many thanks again but how should I read the file correctly and how would I know how to read the file. I read the file with streamreader with code below. OpenFileDialog myNewFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog()...

A non-breaking space John, Many thanks for quick response. Looks like a ? mark inside a diamond - like this - Date:?31/12/2018 (this showed as white question mark inside black diamond before posting) The data is a text file output from a well known banking organisation (in the UK / Europe)...

Not really sure whether the question is exactly correct but I have a 'non printing' character in a string. If I look at the string in EXCEL I determine the character has a numeric equivalent of 160 (code(mychar)). Using 160 doesn't appear to work in c# (Visual studio) Equally statements like...