An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. 'Provider=SQLOLEDB;

Question

i trying to run query using C#, i am getting the following problem

An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. An example would be,

Answer 1

Use SqlConnection instead of OleDbConnection.

Answer 2

Try adding this to your connection string,

Provider=SQLNCLI10.1

So it would be;

<add name="WorkflowConnStr" connectionString="Data Source=Server;Initial Catalog=DBName;user id=usr;password=password;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1" providerName="System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection"/>