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Connecting to Informix 7.24 Database from Visual Basic Frontend

Posted in 2000

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Neil Miranda — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We are trying to connect to Informix 7.24 backend database from VB = frontend. For connecting to Oracle and SQL databases, VB has facility of = 'providers' which comes bundled with VB. However, for connecting to Informix, no provider is available within VB. = The documentation (of VB) also does not mention anything on connectivity = to Informix. Can somebody help on this please? ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>We are trying = to connect to=20 Informix 7.24 backend database from VB frontend. For connecting to = Oracle and=20 SQL databases, VB has facility of 'providers' which comes bundled with=20 VB.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>However, for = connecting to=20 Informix, no provider is available within VB. The documentation (of VB) = also=20 does not mention anything on connectivity to Informix.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Can somebody = help on this=20 please?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240--

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Sergey E. Volkov — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Download latest Informix Client Sdk or Informix Connect from www.intraware.com . It contains OLE DB Provider. Good luck. Sergey. Neil Miranda <nmiranda@afl.co.in> ''''' ' ''''''''':8tjcm9$gq0$1@news.xmission.com... > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > We are trying to connect to Informix 7.24 backend database from VB = > frontend. For connecting to Oracle and SQL databases, VB has facility of = > 'providers' which comes bundled with VB. > > However, for connecting to Informix, no provider is available within VB. = > The documentation (of VB) also does not mention anything on connectivity = > to Informix. > > Can somebody help on this please? > > ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = > size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>We are trying = > to connect to=20 > Informix 7.24 backend database from VB frontend. For connecting to = > Oracle and=20 > SQL databases, VB has facility of 'providers' which comes bundled with=20 > VB.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = > size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>However, for = > connecting to=20 > Informix, no provider is available within VB. The documentation (of VB) = > also=20 > does not mention anything on connectivity to Informix.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 = > size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Can somebody = > help on this=20 > please?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C04270.07F15240-- >

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