>Our section is storing a fair bit of data in outlook folders.
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>This is a bit optimistic of me but...
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>Is there a way of creating an ODBC connection to an outlook folder that would allow me to View and update data in these folders by using VFP views.
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>I realise I can open outlook as a com object and manipulate it that way but seeing as this is the 21st Century I hoped there would be a simpler way to do it.
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>Many Thanks


Actually, ODBC is 20th century technology. Automation is a very good way of doing this. If you want to access it as a database, you could look around for an OLE-DB provider for Outlook. If there is such an animal you could then access the outlook folder via ADO.