Cannot use odbc .net data provider in Visual basic 2005 Express Beta 2

In the VB Express product the IDE has been intentionally designed to allow only access to SQL Express and Access databases.

For these datasources they are the only ones that appear in the data source configuration wizard. You dont get options to change these to the SQL Server or ODBC data sources - This is intentional and by design for the express products.

You can however write code to access these sources directly - and this will work.

Or purchase a copy of VB / Visual Studio which provides additional options for supported databases.

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