Dbf ado.net provider for .Net ?

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Craig Kenisston

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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Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\) [MVP]

Clipper is DBase, if I remember correctly. If so, yes, there is an OLEDB
provider for DBase that you can use with .NET.

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Val Mazur

Hi Craig,

You could use Jet 4.0 OLEDB provider to connect to DBF. But if you plan to
move to MSDE later on, then I would suggest to skip the step with DBF and to
move to MSDE, otherwise you will just loose your time
 
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Craig Kenisston

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,
 

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