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VFP Setup and ODBC Drivers?
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Visual FoxPro
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Client/server
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00091606
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>>I have an application that connects to an Oracle back-end via ODBC. If I use the setup wizard to create a network setup.exe will the wizard be intelligent enough to install the needed ODBC drivers for the app to work, or will I need to install those seperately?
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>>My guess is it will have to be seperately. But this is gonna be such a pain installing Oracle ODBC drivers on each and every PC that I was hoping I was wrong ;).
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>Install the latest (free) ODBC drivers form MS. I have posted the internet address on previous threads this year. Just search on ODBC. Unfortunately, you will have to install these on each machine. Or put them on a network drive and instruct the users how to install them (they will have to do a custom install because MS did not select Oracle as one of the drivers to install by default).
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>I also have an article in KB under Client/Server on connecting VFP to Oracle and programmatically creating an ODBC DSN via VFP.

Thanks Mark! I'll take a look at the KB article.

Michael G. Emmons
memmons@nc.rr.com
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