How access DBIII files with c#

[G.Esmeijer]

Friends,

I have some data that I want to access (und update) and which is stored in
DBase III files.
The application that is working with this data is wrtten in Clipper (Those
were the days )
Is it possible to access these dbase 3 files from without c# ?

Gerrit Esmeijer

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

I was in the same situation a time a go, you can use the vfpoledb.dll
provided with Visual Foxpro and OleDB to access them,
Now I had a BIG problem and is that the legacy application ( SBT ) used an
old kind of index that the current version does not handle. so I could no
write in the tables and have the index updated. I can read with no problem
though.
The only way I could write them was creating a prg file from C# and calling
fox.exe to execute it. This is a "hack" and does not work 100% of the times
cause fox.exe cannot handle prg files of more than 64KB

Let me know if you find a better solution as I have the above mentioned
problem and I have been unable to solve it.


Cheers,