Re: which programming language ?

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"christophe" <irs.znospamforme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've seen many request how to "easely" manipulate another (database)
> fileformat other then
> vfp's own databases.
> But I was wondering which other programming language can open a native
> vfp table ?
> Because I've been asked to make a technical report on my applications
> capabilities/limitations
> and was wondering with which other programming languages you can
> open/manipulate
> a vfp table.
> Or can I simply state it like this : If I can open the others fileformat
> with vfp
> then it can be opened vica versa.
> for example VisualBasic, Excel, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, ...
> and can this be natively or .... ?

I don't know of anything that can natively open current version VFP tables
other than VFP but I've seen various things that could manipulate older
dBase file formats natively (for example there is a dbase extension for PHP
which manipulates dBase 3 files directly.)
I think everyone uses ODBC / OLEDB to access other file types - of course
you've lost the "easily" bit then because different databases have different
data types.

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Regards
Andrew Howell


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