BTRIEVE Database

[Ivana Andric]

Does anyone knows how can I connect to a Btrieve database from C#.

Changing a database is NOT an option.

Please help, it's urgent.
Thanks a bunch in advance.

[Chris D]

Re: BTRIEVE Database

I had to connect a Betrive database(old accounting system) to MSAccess2002
recently.

Betrive is non-relational so its not fun. You have to have a "schema file" I
think they call it, that gives you the record layout of the datafile you
want to access. If you don't have that from the vendor you are in for a
nasty experience.

Our vendor gave us an ODBC driver for our specific application that
contained the "schema information" that allowed access to make sense of the
datafile. I actually ended up moving the records to SQL Server.

The only other way is to parse the datafile in text mode .... not a pleasant
thing to do. There are tools out there to help with this but its pretty much
a hit and miss manual process.

Good luck.

Chris


"Ivana Andric" <andrici@eunet. yu> wrote in message
news:bpgpem$6iu $1@news.eunet.y u...[color=blue]
> Does anyone knows how can I connect to a Btrieve database from C#.
>
> Changing a database is NOT an option.
>
> Please help, it's urgent.
> Thanks a bunch in advance.
>
>[/color]