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Old Jul 21st, 2008, 8:55 AM   #6
Steel9561
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Re: Working with VB6 and MySQL database

Hello guys
I have worked for several years in VB 6 for desktop application development and in an entirely different environment with PHP and MySQL.
For reasons that are too complicated to list I like to work a new project with VB 6.0 and MySQL.

1. What is your experience? Any comments, suggestions ideas, etc?

humm... I am also very experienced in Visual Basic 6 desktop applications but mostly connecting to Access databases. I have also wondered how to connect to MySQL Databases with VB6 and the only thing I was able to find out is that there is an ODBC connector that you actually install on the machine that lets you connect to MySQL Databases. I was able to do it once but only for local databases. I never got to be able to connect to remote databases.

2. I have searched my usual sources and can't find much info or samples for this combination. Any suggestions for tutorials, books, etc?

I can just give you the address where you can download the ODBC connector, I think that should give you a good start:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.1.html


3. I know nothing about .NET would that offer better options for such an experiment?
Thanks a bunch in advnce
logical1

I assume yes, check out this addresses:

http://www.vbmysql.com/articles/vbne...utorial-part-1
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/...ng-vb-net.html
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