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If you go ADO you don't have to VC++ as far as I know.

So far I have been rather successful with using the ADO components, but like
you I'm not too impressed.
I have come across some strangeness in the behavior of the components at
times, and the components have holes in their documentation.

Bottom line is go with ADO.  I don't know of any who is deploying the BDE.
BDE is not fun to deploy when there are multiple BDE dependent apps...
For example you deploy your app.  The client deploys another app that uses
BDE.  The app. the client deploys overwrites your BDE config. data.  You
and/or your client yells #!@$.  You see where that is leading.
Another suggestion would be to browse this newsgroup for solutions to
problems before you encounter them.
Good Luck.

"Borland News Group" <NRambarransingh@Videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:3bcecc2f$1_1@dnews...
> Good Day All,
>
>   A potential client has seen my MIDAS app and would like me to move it to
> MSSQL from DBIV.  I tried to convince him to go interbase, but, since they
> already have the license, and that is all they know, I am not going to
beat
> that horse too much.
>
>   However, I now have the question, should I stick with BDE on the server,
> or, learn and use ADOExpress?  I have worked directly with ADO in an MS
SQL
> env before, and was not inpressed.  I think it had something to do with
> being forced to use VC++ (lets not go there).
>
> Any comments, pointers, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
> Borland Forever ...
>
>