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28/10/2004 10:01:45
Jim Rieck
Quicken Loans/Rock Financial/Title Sourc
Livonia, Michigan, United States
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Client/server
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00953758
Message ID:
00955270
Views:
17
Leroy,

Thanks for the response. So are you saying that there isn't a way for the connection in the project to update when the ODBC connection is updated...?

Jim

>>>Is there a way to have the connection within the project access the ODBC connection
>>>properties. So if the ODBC connection changes the connection in the project would update?
>
>What I would do is create a table (MyDSNs) with 2 fields in it, (THisMachine,DSNString).
>Store your StringConnect information in there.
>Keep that table on the network somewhere.
>
>In your main program that opens up your database do this:
>
>select myDsns
>LOCATE FOR ThisMAchine = SomeName && This could be a variable, property or Method that returns the name that you need
>myDSNString = DNSString
>
>** Now you can set the property of the database connection
>open Database myDatabase
>myConnection = 'My Connection Name in the Database'
>DBSETPROP(myConnection,"CONNECTION","CONNECTSTRING",myDSNString)
>
>
>
>
>This way you can have as many dsns as you want and just look for the DSN that you want.
>Hope this helps.
Thanks

Jim
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