>In my application I use the odbccp32.dll to configure my ODBC settings programatically. The syntax is as follows
>
>DECLARE Integer SQLConfigDataSource in odbccp32.dll Integer, Integer,;
> String, String
>
> settings="DSN=acctpay"+chr(0)+;
> "Description=acctpay"+chr(0)+;
> "SourceDB="+SYS(5) + SYS(2003)+"\acctpay.dbc"+chr(0)+;
> "SourceType=DBC"
>
> SQLConfigDataSource(0,1,"Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver",settings)
>
>Randomly I get an error 2027 "Declare DLL call caused an exception"
>I do not get the error all the time and seems to have just started happening over the past couple months.

Hi Stephen
Add the missing chr(0) after "SourceType=DBC". It may be causing the error


>Does anyone know if there is an updated odbccp32.dll or another way to configure ODBC setting from within VFP ?

If you cannot make it work in a reliable way, you could write the registry values directly (via API calls: RegOpenKey, etc; or using Rick Strahl's wwApi class). That's what SQLConfigDataSource does.

If you look at the registry you'll find the ODBC settings in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI (user data sources)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI (system data sources)

Hope this helps,