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How do you link MS Access 2016 to Visual Fox Pro dbf tables as linked tables?


I have a Visual FoxPro set of tables (.dbf extension) which I want to create linked tables to in MS Access. The forums I have checked seem to indicate that the vfpodbc.dll is no longer supported. I have installed the new OLE driver, but it does not appear as an option in the Linked table manager for selection. I can access this driver from Excel 2016.

Question: Am I limited to using the programatic link method via VBA or is there a way to get this to work using the Linked table manager?

My OS is Windows 10. Visual FoxPro Software is "INFUSION version 8.414"


Solution

  • Using the FoxPro OLEDB driver, you will have to connect programmatically. There's no way to link tables the way you can from an ODBC data source.