"the connection could not be opened because of the folowing errors:

[barret bonden]

"the connection could not be opened because of the folowing errors: format
of the initialization string does not conform to the OLEDB specification"

Trying to create an ole connection and data adaptor by dragging a table onto
a form; I see that some tables will work , and other give me that error
above - have no idea why ....

 

[W.G. Ryan MVP]

Can you post the Connectionstring you're using?

 

[Sahil Malik [MVP]]

Try www.connectionstrings.com for a better connection string than ur using
right now.

- Sahil Malik [MVP]
http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/