the problem with your connection is that you're specifying an oledb connection object but passing it an odbc style connection - you either need to pass it an oledb connection string, or change the connection object to odbc (not an ideal setup). This somewhat depends on what drivers you have available as windows doesn't ship with progress drivers (I suspect you can use the OLEDB provider for ODBC drivers but don't have a progress install to verify).

It's possible you already have drivers installed from a progress installation (or purchased via a 3rd party such as http://www.datadirect.com/  ), but I find the easiest way to test/generate connection strings is to create a UDL file (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra... ). Double clicking the udl file allows you to use a friendly interface to connect to and test your connection - once you have a working connection save it and then right click the udl file and open it in notepad - this will then show you the connection you can use.