asp.net inside asp?

Here you go:

1 - Yes you can use asp.net or aspx on asp pages, IF the server supports the ASP.NET thing, or .NET framework. Check this with your system administrator or something ** Im like windows! **

2 - Interupt the string, likte this:

 ConnStr = "PROVIDER=bla.bal;DATA Source=" & Server.Mappath("/virtual/database.mdb") & "; the restofthestring"

Use www.connectionstrings.com for more connectionstrings. If this string doesn't work, leave the ; out. Im not really sure if this is needed in this string, but it is done by using the Server.Mappath("Dir/file.extention").

Houston, we've got a problem.

This is weird, since you're using a config file to declare the string. Nothing wrong with that, but WHY isn't it possible to instert Server.Mappath?

Ow, while I'm typing this, I realize that maybe a config file can't use the Server. or Response., Request. commands. Maybe that's it. But why don't you use the static path? If that one worked..

I gues not, since the config file isn't executed as a normal aspx page. It's the same as classes: you can't use request/response and here I guess the server variables are also unreachable.

Try putting it into a class file like this:

Public Class Storage

Public ConnStr As String

Public Function Initialize()

   ConnStr = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OleDb.4.0;Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("admentornet.mdb")

End Function

End Class

Now when you need the ConnStr value, just use this:

Dim ReqStorage As New Storage
ReqStorage.Initialize()
Dim ConnStr As String = ReqStorage.ConnStr

Of course a config file is better, but in an emergency you can use this. You'd probably already know it, but still, I use it, since the data is compiled, wich is more secure than a config file I guess.