You want to use ADO.NET to access data stored in a text file.
Use the OLE DB .NET data provider.
The solution creates and opens a connection to a text file using the OLE DB .NET data provider. Information about the connection is displayed.
The C# code in Program.cs in the project ConnectTextFile is shown in Example 1-15.
Example 1-15. File: Program.cs for ConnectTextFile solution
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
namespace ConnectTextFile
{...