Re: VB-ODBC

Frederic Bouquet wrote: > > Prashant Prabhudesai,pprabhu@gftpd-mail.citicorp.com,CINet writes: > >Can anyone please post any info regarding what is required to have > >Visual Basic on PC side and Informix on Unix side going. > > > >We plan to use ODBC. > > You are not forced to use ODBC, some products provide direct access from VB > to Informix database. Some others products provide both (direct and ODBC), > CI-Link for instance (http://www.cornut.fr) To access your Informix server from Visual Basic I can recommend two possible courses of action. 1) Use an ODBC driver. This will work and there are several ODBC drivers available that you can use. Be warned that there are certain things you can't do (or do well) via an ODBC driver. But for basic (no pun intended) functionality this is a very viable option. 2) Write a DLL using ESQL/C that is accessed by your Visual Basic application. If you have ever used ESQL/C, you won't find this technique very difficult to implement. ---------- Alex Fiore Senior Engineer Informix Software Email: alex@informix.com My comments are my personal opinion and are not the opinion of my employer or anyone else. I claim copyright in all my statements and give no one the right to copy them (even if they are quoted elsewhere) in any medium except on netnews or email. In particular, no one can reproduce or reprint my comments in print or any visual medium without getting my explicit permission.