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Hello pdanese ,<br />
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Regarding database connectivity issues(remotely or locally).<br />
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It is possilbe to connect using vb.net 2003 / ado.net.<br />
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You have to use proper ADO.Net provider.<br />
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You can find the list of providers for your scenario:<br />
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<a href="http://www.sqlstrings.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.sqlstrings.com/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sqlstrings.com/SQL-Server-connection-strings.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.sqlstrings.com/SQL-Server-connection-strings.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm</a><br />
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Hope it helps
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Hello pdanese ,

Regarding database connectivity issues(remotely or locally).

It is possilbe to connect using vb.net 2003 / ado.net.

You have to use proper ADO.Net provider.

You can find the list of providers for your scenario:


http://www.sqlstrings.com/ [http://www.sqlstrings.com/]

http://www.sqlstrings.com/SQL-Server-connection-strings.htm [http://www.sqlstrings.com/SQL-Server-connection-strings.htm]

http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm [http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm]


Hope it helps

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I just want to make sure that your suggestions will work with the standard edition (i.e. NOT the full-blown Professional edition that costs $1000 or so).<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
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I just want to make sure that your suggestions will work with the standard edition (i.e. NOT the full-blown Professional edition that costs $1000 or so).

Thanks.



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Hi, I have a pretty simple question.<br />
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I'm thinking about getting VB.net 2003 Standard edition (100 bucks or so), but it isn't clear to me what limitations this software has w/respect to database connectivity.<br />
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Will the standard edition allow me to connect to other databases (besides sqlserver) like Oracle &amp;&nbsp;Mysql? <br />
<br />
I've read different/contradictory things about this and microsoft itself does its best to muddy/avoid the issue.<br />
What seems clear is that databases cannot be accessed remotely using vb.net 2003 standard, but it isn't clear if I have Oracle running as a localhost whether I'll be able to connect.<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
<br />

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Hi, I have a pretty simple question.

I'm thinking about getting VB.net 2003 Standard edition (100 bucks or so), but it isn't clear to me what limitations this software has w/respect to database connectivity.

Will the standard edition allow me to connect to other databases (besides sqlserver) like Oracle & Mysql? 

I've read different/contradictory things about this and microsoft itself does its best to muddy/avoid the issue.
What seems clear is that databases cannot be accessed remotely using vb.net 2003 standard, but it isn't clear if I have Oracle running as a localhost whether I'll be able to connect.

Thanks.



VB.net Standard edition and database connections

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,