Re: Programming + MSDE 2000

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From: Tibor Karaszi (tibor_please.no.email_karaszi_at_hotmail.nomail.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:15:18 +0100

>From classic VB, ADO is probably your best choice. ADO is a COM object, and
it comes with MDAC (I believe), which you already have on your machine
assuming you have a decently recent OS (W2K or higher). There are some ADO
newsgroups I believe, btw. 

-- 
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
"Joseph" <msde2000@techscribe.com> wrote in message
news:18a301c4110f$ddb27be0$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi.
>
> I want to be able to programmatically access MSDE
> databases. I would rather not use Visual Basic. My
> preference would be to either access MSDE databases using
> ODBC, or to use a DLL, so that I am more flexible in my
> choice of programming tools. If all else fails, then I
> would have to use some API (I do not use .NET, the latest
> version of Visual C++ I have is 6.0, and I would rather not
> have to upgrade). What are my options? Where do I get the
> API, if one is necessary?
>
> TIA,
> Joseph

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