Re: Dbf ado.net provider for .Net ?

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From: Craig Kenisston (craigkenisston_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:30 -0500

Clipper is DBase !?
How old are you ? 22 ? <g>
(Sorry for the joke.)

Seriously, no, Clipper is not Dbase, the difference raise in memo format and
indexes. You may read clipper files with the Dbase driver, but you'll have
problems if those files have memo fields.
Also, it won't be able to update clipper indexes.

Regards,

"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) [MVP]" <NoSpamMgbworld@comcast.netNoSpamM> wrote
in message news:%23MdST8YWEHA.2816@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Clipper is DBase, if I remember correctly. If so, yes, there is an OLEDB
> provider for DBase that you can use with .NET.
>
> --
> Gregory A. Beamer
> MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
>
> ************************************************
> Think Outside the Box!
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> "Craig Kenisston" <craigkenisston@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Ov%2325aXWEHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an old system written in Clipper that I was required to move to
> .Net
> > platform. I will use C#.
> > I would like to make this move in two steps, moving first all graphic
> > interfase but keep using same database as backend and lately move all
the
> > tables to a more modern RDBMS like MSDE.
> >
> > So, I'm looking for advise on 3rd party engines that allows me to
> read/write
> > to clipper DBF files, since I don't find a suitable OLEDB provider from
> > among those shipped in Windows.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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