Thanks for the response. I'm working with Win 2K machines, and I'll look
became the way I decided to go. Since my app is relativly simple on the
"Cindy Winegarden" <cindy_winegarden@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Corey,
>
> You haven't said which OS you are using. Mine's in the Administrative
Tools
> section of the Control Panel. Alternatively (in XP at least) you can run
> %systemroot%\system32\odbcad32.exe .
>
> Since you're starting new code have you considered OLE DB? ODBC has been
> deprecated.
>
> --
> Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual Foxpro MVP
> cindy_winegarden@msn.com
www.cindywinegarden.com > Blog:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/cindywinegarden >
>
> "Corey Cooper" <CoreyC at InnovativeDesign dot com> wrote in message
> news:u%23YF1WSVFHA.2768@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I'm an old C/C++ programmer, but new to SQL and MS SQL Server.
> >
> > I'm writing an application in C++/MFC (6.0) that happens to need some
> > access
> > to data from an SQL Server. When installing Visual C++, it has option
for
> > installing database components and ODBC Drivers, which I did a while ago
> > when I installed VC. This sets up a program in the Control Panel called
> > "Data Sources (ODBC)", all well and good. However I wanted to do some
> > work
> > on my Laptop, and it doesn't have that control panel. I went through
the
> > procedure talked about in the "Sams Teach yourself Database Programming
> > with
> > Visual C++ 6.0" to add the ODBC drivers from the Visual C++
installation
> > disks, and it says that they are all already installed.
> >
> > All this is frustrating, and I need to get this resiolved, but the
bigger
> > question is; how do I load this on my Client's machine? Is this the
> > "Client
> > Tools" or "Drivers" that can be loaded from the SQL Server installation
> > disk? I don't have a 'clean' machine available to try it out.
> >
> > Corey
> >
> >
>
>
