'DECLARE A STRING VARIABLE TO STORE THE STRING CONNECTION.

Dim strcon As String = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & Application.StartupPath &

"\userdb.accdb"
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'INITIALIZE THE STRING CONNECTION TO BE OPEN
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Dim con As OleDb.OleDbConnection = New OleDb.OleDbConnection(strcon)
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'INITIALIZE THE COMMANDS THAT ARE USED TO FILL THE DATASET AND UPDATE THE DATA SOURCE
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Dim da As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter
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'INITIALIZE YOUR DATASET
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Dim ds As New DataSet
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'DECLARE A STRING VARIABLE TO STORE THE QUERY IN IT
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Dim sql As String
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Public Sub cbofill(ByVal sql As String, ByVal cbo As ComboBox)

Try
'OPENING THE CONNECTION
con.Open()
'SET YOUR COMMANDS AND A DATABASE CONNECTION
' THAT ARE USED TO FILL THE DATASET AND UPDATE
' THE DATA SOURCE.
da = New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sql, con)
'SET A NEW DATASET
ds = New DataSet
'ADDING AND REFRESHING THE ROWS OF YOUR DATATABLE
'(FILLING THE DATATABLE)
da.Fill(ds, "userdb")
With cbo
'SET YOUR DATASOURCE TO GET THE
' COLLECTION OF TABLES CONTAINED
' IN THE DATASET
.DataSource = ds.Tables(0)
'SET THE FIELDS OF THE DATATABLE TO
' BE SHOWN ON THE COMBOBOX
.DisplayMember = "username"
'SET THE ACTUAL VALUE OF THE
' ITEMS IN THE COMBOBOX

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.ValueMember = "user_id"
End With
Catch ex As Exception
'CATCH ANY ERRORS
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
'CLOSING THE CONNECTION
con.Close()
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'STORE YOUR QUERY IN THE STRING VARIABLE
sql = "SELECT * FROM tbluser"
'CALL YOUR SUB PROCEDURE AND PUT YOUR QUERY IN THE FIRST PARAMETER.
'AND FOR THE SECOND PARAMETER IS THE NAME OF THE COMBOBOX.
cbofill (sql, ComboBox1)
End Sub