RE: [Dev-C++] OT: Connecting to FoxPro databases with a DSN

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

I think you'd best post this function...

>From: "Ed Cottrell" <em...@to...>
>To: <dev...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] OT: Connecting to FoxPro databases with a DSN
>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:57:17 -0400
>
> >did you not say the MS tutorial compiled? does that not connect?
>
>It does compile (after a few modifications - it had some botched includes),
>but it exits without an error or anything. I've tried setting breakpoints
>and stepping into it, so I isolated the point at which it exits (on an "if"
>statement to determine if the query was successful, but I don't know which
>fork of the "if" it's following - it just exits and never makes it to the
>"if" commands OR the "else" commands). No dialog box or message box, no
>error message, nothing.
>
>Plus, it only demonstrates doing it with a DSN. The nature of this project
>demands that it be done without a DSN (because there are two many databases
>and too many client machines involved, and neither is expected to stay at
>all constant in number).
>
>-Ed
>
>
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>Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] OT: Connecting to FoxPro databases with a DSN
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>
>did you not say the MS tutorial compiled? does that not connect?
>
>
> >From: "Ed Cottrell" <em...@ed...>
> >To: <dev...@li...>
> >Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] OT: Connecting to FoxPro databases with a DSN
> >Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:53:58 -0400
> >
> > > Do you get a connection to the database? If so can you perform a
> > > simple
> >SQL
> >
> >That's just it - I don't know how to connect to the database from C or
> >C++. I know the database end of things (SQL, recordsets, all that); I
> >just don't know how to access the database, at all, with C code.
> >
> >-Ed
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Ed Cottrell" <em...@to...>
> > >To: "'Dev-C++ users'" <dev...@li...>
> > >Subject: [Dev-C++] OT: Connecting to FoxPro databases with a DSN
> > >Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:26:37 -0400
> > >
> > >Hi all -
> > >
> > >I know this is not a Dev-C++ post, but I'm a little new to C and am
> > >desperate for help. I have to convert a Visual Basic program (which I
> > >wrote)
> > >to C or C++, the primary purpose of which is to collate information
> > >from a bunch of databases - currently 12 Foxpro and 1 MySQL - without
> > >using DSNs.
> > >
> > >What I need is for somebody to point me to a resource on how to work
> > >with the Foxpro ODBC driver from a C/C++ program; the tutorial on
> > >Microsoft's MSDN site compiled (after some tweaks), but doesn't
> > >produce any output, and I can't find seem to find the errors.
> > >
> > >Many thanks!
> > >
> > >-Ed
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