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>>Well, I was going to say it no longer works in MDAC 2.5 but apparently if you create an empty text file with a UDL extension and double-click it through the Windows Explorer it opens up the Data Link properties dialog. I tested with both 2.5 and 2.6.
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>>Try that and see if it works on your end.
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>I get "Microsoft Data Link Error","File cannot be opened. Ensure it is a valid Data Link file".
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>It is no big deal; I saw this and was curious how the UDL files work, so I tried it.
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>I saw this thread when trying to figure out why I can't get certain sp's to work with OLEDB provider. I have started a thread in SQL forum about my problem, but probably should post it here...much more traffic in VFP forum.

I could have sworn it wasn't going to work until I tried it. At first I did get the same error message you got but then I did the following:

- opened the file in Notepad
- deleted a semicolon added when I created the file
- saved and exit, double-cliked it and voila!?

It opened the dialog. Weird.