Hi,

I am an old at at DBISAM but new to Visual Studio and the DBISAM ODBC driver. I just installed the ODBC driver and set up a system DSN to point to
a database. The test connection is good. But when I add the database in Visual Studio 2008, it doesn't list any tables in the Database Explorer. Is this
normal, is it a problem or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Danny

Danny,

<< I am an old at at DBISAM but new to Visual Studio and the DBISAM ODBC
driver. I just installed the ODBC driver and set up a system DSN to point to
a database. The test connection is good. But when I add the database in
Visual Studio 2008, it doesn't list any tables in the Database Explorer. Is
this normal, is it a problem or am I doing something wrong? >>

I can't test it here yet because I haven't received anything from MSDN yet
regarding VS2008.  More than likely they changed something or screwed
something up and I'll have to put a workaround in the ODBC Driver for it.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

I thought it might be a VS 2008 thing so I tried it in 2005 and got the same result.

Danny

<<I can't test it here yet because I haven't received anything from MSDN yet
regarding VS2008.>>


Tim,

If you subscribe to MSDN, you can download VS 2008 from the MSDN site.

Danny

I just tried it here and not only does it not show the tables but it
doesn't create an ODBC log file so I can't see why.

Executing a SQL statement appears to work okay, it is just that the
tables are not listed.

Chris Holland

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> Danny,
>
> << I am an old at at DBISAM but new to Visual Studio and the DBISAM ODBC
> driver. I just installed the ODBC driver and set up a system DSN to point to
> a database. The test connection is good. But when I add the database in
> Visual Studio 2008, it doesn't list any tables in the Database Explorer. Is
> this normal, is it a problem or am I doing something wrong? >>
>
> I can't test it here yet because I haven't received anything from MSDN yet
> regarding VS2008.  More than likely they changed something or screwed
> something up and I'll have to put a workaround in the ODBC Driver for it.
>

Danny,

<< If you subscribe to MSDN, you can download VS 2008 from the MSDN site. >>

I'll wait, thanks.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Danny,

<< I thought it might be a VS 2008 thing so I tried it in 2005 and got the
same result. >>

Okay, I've got it now.  VS2005 and above isn't escaping the catalog name
separator like they should be with a preceding backslash, so the
pattern-matching in the catalog functions isn't working properly.  I've
added a workaround to this in the ODBC driver, so it will be fixed in the
next DBISAM build.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com