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With the comming of .NET, what is the future of Access as a development tool? Will Access be upgraded? Will it use VB.NET? Will there be a way to migrate code or forms? TIA

I took the Programming SQL 2000 Instructor led course (5 days in the classroom). MOC. I would recommend this approach if you have no experience at all with SQL server becauses it forces you to get hands on experience with the product (which I didn't have at the time). If you already work with...

Try the following code. You need to open an ADO connection and specify the directory if it is a free table, not the DBF file itself. cnDb = New ADODB.Connection connStr = "Driver=Microsoft Visual Foxpro Driver; " + ; "UID=;SourceType=DBF; SourceDB = " + "c:\&quot...

What is rpcmon.dll? What component is it part of? Thanks.

If I understand your question, Yes! C# compiles to IL (intermediate language), which gets used by the .NET runtime. The big question is whether .NET runtime as been ported to other platforms, which (correct me if I am wrong) has not happened yet.

The connection string for DBF (free tables) looks like this: Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver}; SourceType=DBF; SourceDB=\path; Exclusive=No;

You need to create a static, client-side, optimistic ADO recordset using the open method of the ADODB.recordset object like this: SET ocn=server.createobject("ADODB.CONNECTION") ocn.open("DSN=FoxSample") SET ors=server.createobject("ADODB.RECORDSET")...

Use the RDD of Clipper 5. http://www.southbeachsoftware.com/artclipper.asp

I want to get column descriptions from SQL to put on my front end labels instead of hard coding them. I know I could probably do this through extended properties. Does anyone have any other ideas for creating and accessing this meta-data from the front end?

Do you have the correct permissions on the \\fshv5 server? The anonymous user IUSR_MACHINENAME needs read (at least) permissions to the directory and the file on the \\fshv5 server.