Re: Create ADO connection (DSN) programmatically

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From: Mike
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:13

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3 things come to mind:
1. you can use the InstallShield option to create an ODBC DSN.
2. look in Code Central for a coding  example.
3. there is an ODBC API call SqlConfigDataSource() that I believe is
documented in the Microsoft MDAC SDK.


<Bert> wrote in message news:3b136f22.97439220@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> General : I made a bcb 5.0 application which reads from/writes to an
> Access database (ADO).
>
> At this moment I made the DSN manually in the control panel (ODBC32)
>
> I installed service pack 1 + the ADO update and mdac 2.6
>
> Problem : How can I create this DSN programmatically ?
>
> I tried to work with the connection-string, but this doesn' t work on
> Windows NT 4.0.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bert.Vanstreels
>          (@bigfoot.com)
>

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