Visual Basic & Databases

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I'm looking to make a simply reminder program, possibly with a calender in it.

I'm used to PHP/MYSQL on the web and tables in a database are dam useful and pretty easy to manage.

I'm looking for a simple way to sort out Visual basic and a simple database with one table in it.

The database just needs to be stored in a file which sits in the same folder as my program.

I'm trying to find a nice simple way to set this up.


Any advice would be great.

Evil Phil

If you're using classic VB (vb6) then look up tutorials on ADO, if it's vb.net you'll need ADO.Net. VB code isn't hard to learn, specially as you've coded before and your db requirements are about as simple as it gets. ADO(.net) will teach you how to connect to the db and manipulate the data within.

Random

Sorry, yeh. it's standard VB6. So I'll look up a couple of tutorials on ADO later on and see what I find. As you say, what I'm doing is pretty simple... I just need some sort of foothold to get started.

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Evil Phil wrote:

If you're using classic VB (vb6) then look up tutorials on ADO, if it's vb.net you'll need ADO.Net. VB code isn't hard to learn, specially as you've coded before and your db requirements are about as simple as it gets. ADO(.net) will teach you how to connect to the db and manipulate the data within.

Googling that I seem to be getting various licensing and purchasing options :S

Seth Brundle

email me (info at kbannon dot com) - I may have tutorials for you!

osmethod

Check Google Groups .... very good info...

http://groups.google.ie/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.lang.basic.visual

osmethod

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I emailed you k...

osmethod, will take a look, cheers :P