Using the VFP FoxPro ODBC Driver with Your Visual Basic Application

Your Visual Basic application can communicate with Visual FoxPro data by creating a data control that connects to a Visual FoxPro data source.

To connect to Visual FoxPro data using the Data Control in Visual Basic

1. Create a data source named "test" that connects to the TasTrade sample database included in Visual FoxPro. The default Visual FoxPro installation places the TasTrade sample database in the location:

   c:\vfp\samples\mainsamp\data\tastrade.dbc  
   

2. In Visual Basic, create a new form and place a text box and a Data control on it.

3. Change the Data control's Connect property as follows:

   ODBC;DATABASE=tastrade;DSN=test  
   

4. Change the RecordsetType property to the following:

   2 - Snapshot  
   

5. Change the RecordSource property to the following:

   customer  
   

6. Change the DataSource property for the text box to the default name for the Data control to the following:

   data1  
   

7. Change the text box's DataField property to the following:

   customer_id  
   

8. Run the form, and use the Data control to skip through the customer id fields from the Visual FoxPro TasTrade sample database.