Paradox DB connection string sample

        Dim ConnectionString As String = ""
        ConnectionString = "Driver={Microsoft Paradox Driver (*.db )};DriverID=538;Fil=Paradox 5.X;DefaultDir=C:\MY_DB;Dbq=C:\MY_DB;CollatingSequence=ASCII;"
        Dim ParadoxConn As New System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection(ConnectionString)
        ParadoxConn.Open()

        Dim da As New System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter("Select * from my_table", ParadoxConn)
        Dim ds As New DataSet
        da.Fill(ds, "ParadoxTable")
        ParadoxConn.Close()

        DataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables(0)