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How to create System DSN trough code?
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Yeps.
Create a TRegistry and write to the registry at this keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\<your odbc>
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources
.
A tip. Create a System ODBC datasource from your control panel, and then review the registry at the above mentioned sections.
//Nordlund
Create a TRegistry and write to the registry at this keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\<your odbc>
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ODBC Data Sources
.
A tip. Create a System ODBC datasource from your control panel, and then review the registry at the above mentioned sections.
//Nordlund
LucieLastic
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Would you not be better using ADO as datasources wouldn't be required with that?
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LucieLastic
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hi
What do you have in your connectionstring for the Provider part? Just looking in Google and found some examples but unsure whether I'm on the right track here as I've never used MySQL. Will post some of them in a mo...
lou
What do you have in your connectionstring for the Provider part? Just looking in Google and found some examples but unsure whether I'm on the right track here as I've never used MySQL. Will post some of them in a mo...
lou
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