c# - SQL connection string for microsoft access 2010 .accdb

Question

I am doing a simple login form using winforms and access 2010 database (.accdb) in C#.

I have the following code and it seems that the connection string is wrong. I have tried searching and found that .Jet is for access 07?? but this doesnt seem to work too. i am an amateur at databases (code referred from msdn). I am having trouble understand which should i use for this example too.

access table name: haha

ID (PK)  |   password
-----------------------
   1     |   testing

        System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection conn = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:BC207est.accdb");
        System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand comm = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand();

        comm.CommandText = "SELECT HAHA(*) FROM password";
        comm.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
        comm.Connection = conn;

        conn.Open();

        Object returnValue = comm.ExecuteScalar();
        conn.Close();

        MessageBox.Show((string)returnValue);

edited: the table's name is password, and the field that i want to get the value is ID.

SQL statement i wrote it as : SELECT ID FROM password

and yes, only one record in only one field in the table as the primary key.

anyway the problem is that the program hangs upon execution on the first line
-> Keyword not supported: 'provider'.

so i figured that I have a wrong connection string..

Answer 1

For Acces databases (.mdb, .accdb, etc...), you want to use OleDbConnection, not SqlConnection (SQL Server), like this:

conn = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:BC207est.accdb")