Imports System Imports System.Data.OleDb Class Hello Shared Sub Main() Dim conStr As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" _ & "Data Source=hello.mdb;" Dim sqlStr As String = "SELECT 'Hello, ADO.NET World!' AS Message" Dim con As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection(conStr) Dim cmd As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand(sqlStr, con) con.Open() Dim reader As OleDbDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader() While reader.Read() Console.WriteLine( reader.GetName(0) ) Console.WriteLine( "---------------------" ) Console.WriteLine( reader(0) ) End While reader.Close() con.Close() End Sub End Class