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Good C++ Tutorial for connecting to an Access 2000 DB

I'm tring to find a good tutorial for using a C++ app as a front end for and Access 2000/97 database.

Currently I'm using "Dev C++", a compiler made by Bloodshed software. But it shouldn't matter much..

Back to the question..

I'm still relatively new to the C/C++ (5 months into it)culture coming from Visual Basic, but I'm wanting to do my new apps in C++ because it's more recognized as a professional language than VB.

Thanks

JMD

Axter

Trying to interface with Access without MFC is going to be a pretty hard to do.

I highly recommend that you get VC++ and use MFC if you want to interface with Access.
It's real easy to do via MFC.

Pavlik

Well... MFC is "a little" heavy :-). I usually don't allow this moster to live in my programs. I would prefer to use either ODBC or OLEDB for such task.

LoungeLizard

You don't neccesarily have to go for MFC, but you will almost certainly need some kind of third party software/libraries for that. In general Windows programming is very hard is you don't have all the nifty functionality provided by something like MFC or Borland's OWL.

BTW, Dev C++ is not a compiler, just a front-end for G++, Cygwin or MinGW compilers . The last two here might provide the functionality you need. Check the websites

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
http://www.mingw.org/

mohsiniiui

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format the program for good understanding of what's going on.

EE database gave an error message when i sent it with proper indentation.

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