Took me a while to actually find the right syntax to connect to an Acces DB in c++. Since every CLR tutorial is in c# and VB, here it goes :[source:C++]private: System::Void button2_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {

            //connects to database
            OleDbConnection ^  m_OleDbConnection = gcnew OleDbConnection(”Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\PLUSweld.mdb”);
            
            m_OleDbConnection->Open();
            //m_OleDBConnection->Close(); to close it
} [/source] 

Stumble it!