>Hi Cetin,
>
>Thanks for responding to my question. I did not even know that anyone would respond to this message. I have not been checking my UT messages lately.
>
>Here at work, I am only using Visual Studio.net 2003 Standard Edition and I have attempted to start an MFC SDI application with Database support and with client type ODBC and I get this Error:
>
>

>Server Explorer
>Unable to connect to database.
>It is only possible to connect to SQL Server Desktop Engine databases
>and Microsoft Access databases with this version of Visual Studio.
>

>
>Do I need to tell my boss to upgrade this version of Visual Studio to make this work? Please confirm.
>
>Thanks again for your help.
>Sam

Sam,
I have never used standard version. From the message it looks like you need an upgrade. But that's purely strange to me because you could simply do the connection from a notepad written source code. However it might be that you're specifically using MFC SDI application which might have internal limitations (I have never used).
If you can do with C++ then I'm sure you'd be able to do with C#. Try in C#.
Also please do not use ODBC but OLEDB driver with VFP.
PS: 2005 express versions are free.
Cetin