Create a blank Jet database

You can do this in a much easier way:object ADOXCat = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("ADOX.Catalog"));ADOXCat.GetType().InvokeMember("Create", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, ADOXCat, new string[] { ConnectionString });

another way is to first create a empty db in access then read its bytes into an array and export them as a string. Then hardcode that string into a class that creates the the empty database by converting the hardcoded string back into a byte array and then writing it to disk as a mdb...

I like to use the old JET API to manipulate ACCESS Databases.In C# 4 all you need to create a blank JET database is add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Dao library in your WINDOWS FORMS project, and two simple lines of code: var engine=new DBEngine(); var...

And here is the long version, provided from Microsoft:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317881/en-u[^]using System;using ADOX;namespace ConsoleApplication1{ class Class1 { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { ...

How to create a blank Jet database