Option Explicit Sub CreateAccessDatabase(sDatabaseToCreate) Dim catNewDB As ADOX.Catalog Set catNewDB = New ADOX.Catalog catNewDB.Create "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.

0;" & _ "Data Source=" & sDatabaseToCreate & _ ";Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=5;" ' Engine Type=5 = Access 2000 Database ' Engine Type=4 = Access 97 Database Set catNewDB = Nothing End Sub Sub CreateAccessTable(sDatabaseToCreate) Dim catDB As ADOX.Catalog Dim tblNew As ADOX.Table Set catDB = New ADOX.Catalog ' Open the catalog catDB.ActiveConnection = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source=" & sDatabaseToCreate ' Create new Table Set tblNew = New ADOX.Table tblNew.Name = "Contacts" ' First Create an Autonumber column, called ID. ' This is just for demonstration purposes. ' We could have done this below with all the other ' columns as well Dim col As ADOX.Column Set col = New ADOX.Column With col .ParentCatalog = catDB .Type = adInteger ' adText does not exist .Name = "ID" .Properties("Autoincrement") = True .Properties("Description") = "I am the Description " & _ "for the column" End With tblNew.Columns.Append col ' Now add the rest of the columns With tblNew ' Create fields and append them to the ' Columns collection of the new Table object. With .Columns .Append "NumberColumn", adInteger .Append "FirstName", adVarWChar .Append "LastName", adVarWChar .Append "Phone", adVarWChar .Append "Notes", adLongVarWChar End With Dim adColNullable ' Is not defined in adovbs.inc,

' so we need to define it here. ' The other option is adColFixed with a value of 1 adColNullable = 2 With .Columns("FirstName") .Attributes = adColNullable End With End With ' Add the new Table to the Tables collection of the database. catDB.Tables.Append tblNew Set col = Nothing Set tblNew = Nothing Set catDB = Nothing End Sub Private Sub Form_Load() Dim sDatabaseName As String sDatabaseName = "C:\MyNewDatabase.mdb" ' First call the Create Database method CreateAccessDatabase sDatabaseName ' Then add a table and columns to this database CreateAccessTable sDatabaseName MsgBox "Database has been created successfully!" End Sub