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This is the connection string I am using.
string connection = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\\CULVERT2.DBF;Extended Properties=dBASE IV;";
The error I am receiving is C:\CULVERT2.DBF' is not a valid path.
Using C# and .NET 4
Why is it not seeing the file?
You may need quotes around the Data Source attribute as well as around the Extended Properties:
Also, you may want to verify that the file is named exactly as you have it, and that you have permissions to the file 😉
UPDATE:
You need to specify only the folder, not the filename as per http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharpgeneral/thread/7a3f7bc0-a5c5-45ee-a488-fc262e795ec6. In your case that would be just
C:\