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    This document provides code to programmatically create an Access database in Visual Basic. The code first checks if the database file already exists at the given path, and if not, it creates the database file, adds a table called "Witnesses" with fields for last name, first name, and age, and defines an index on the last name and age fields. The function returns a boolean to indicate if the database was successfully created. A button click event handler calls this function and displays a message to the user.

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    Sample code adapted from code found on www.freevbcode.com

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    This document provides code to programmatically create an Access database in Visual Basic. The code first checks if the database file already exists at the given path, and if not, it creates the database file, adds a table called "Witnesses" with fields for last name, first name, and age, and defines an index on the last name and age fields. The function returns a boolean to indicate if the database was successfully created. A button click event handler calls this function and displays a message to the user.

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    EXAMPLE CreatingaDatabaseProgrammatically

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    This document provides code to programmatically create an Access database in Visual Basic. The code first checks if the database file already exists at the given path, and if not, it creates the database file, adds a table called "Witnesses" with fields for last name, first name, and age, and defines an index on the last name and age fields. The function returns a boolean to indicate if the database was successfully created. A button click event handler calls this function and displays a message to the user.

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    Creating a Database Programmatically

    Please note: The only use I can imagine for this is if you’ve tested to see if the database
    exists and it doesn’t – which in itself, suggests something is wrong. I would usually
    expect the database to be designed and created prior to use of the program, since you
    don’t want multiple copies of the database and this code won’t work once the database
    exists.

    This code was based on code found @: www.freevbcode.com

    Private Function CreateAccessDatabase(ByVal DatabaseFullPath As String)


    As Boolean
    Dim blnSuccess As Boolean
    Try
    'Make sure the folder
    'provided in the path exists. If file name w/o path
    'is specified, the database will be created in your
    'application folder.

    mstrCreateTable = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data
    Source=" & DatabaseFullPath
    adoxCat.Create(mstrCreateTable)

    'name table, append fields to table


    adoxTable.Name = "Witnesses"
    adoxTable.Columns.Append("LastName",
    ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar, 40)
    adoxTable.Columns.Append("FirstName",
    ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar, 20)
    adoxTable.Columns.Append("Age", ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adInteger)

    'append tables to database


    adoxCat.Tables.Append(adoxTable)

    'internal index on two fields


    adoxIndex.Name = "TwoColumnsIndex" 'name of index
    adoxIndex.Columns.Append("LastName")
    adoxIndex.Columns.Append("Age")

    adoxTable.Indexes.Append(adoxIndex)
    blnSuccess = True

    Catch Excep As System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException


    blnSuccess = False
    'do whatever else you need to do here, log,
    'msgbox etc.
    Finally
    adoxCat = Nothing
    End Try
    Return blnSuccess
    End Function

    Private Sub btnCreateDatabase_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal


    e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCreateDatabase.Click
    'Call the function and test to see if it’s been created.
    If CreateAccessDatabase(Application.StartupPath &
    "\Identikit.mdb") = True Then
    MsgBox("Database Created")
    Else
    MsgBox("Database Creation Failed")
    End If
    End Sub

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