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How to access properties of Access Database Table using C# ADOX?

I have created MS Access Database using C# ADOX library. I have created one table with several columns. What I want to achieve is when I insert date in one column, the date format should be YYYY-MM-DD and not MM-DD-YYYY. I know its just display format, but I want to access the property which we set when we open access table in design mod...

Python / ADOX: 'The specified module could not be found.' (win32 extensions)

I'm running pywin32 for python 2.5. I'm following the instructions for python ADO given at http://www.ecp.cc/pyado.html. Creating an ADODB.Recordset object works fine. But when I try to create an ADOX.Catalog object I get an error: >>> cat=win32com.client.Dispatch(r'ADOX.Catalog') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<interact...

How can I access a view command through T-SQL?

I'd like to be able to retrieve programmatically the command strings that generate the views on our SQL Server. I though the ADOX collection, used together with an ADODB connection, will allow us to access this through the catalog/view/command property. Unfortunately, the 'views' collection is not available when connecting from an MS-A...

[ADOX] VB.NET -> C# Syntax problems

I want to create a new MS Access database table using ADOX. On this page, is code in VB.NET, but obviously it's not working in C# (when I want to "convert" the code). I'll be grateful if someone converts it correctly. ...

SQL/Schema comparison and upgrade

I have a simple situation. A large organisation is using several different versions of some (desktop) application and each version has it's own database structure. There are about 200 offices and each office will have it's own version, which can be one of 7 different ones. The company wants to upgrade all applications to the latest versi...

Is there a way to create an Access Database (.mdb) file without using the MS Jet OLE DB provider?

After usually creating databases with this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317881 it appears some registry cleaners wipe out the OLEDB entries, and therefore the service provider (Jet 5.0) cannot be found. Is there a way around this? I'd like to be able to create a database without playing the "ship an empty DB and copy it around when...

ADOX , C#, Access

Hi, I have to make a program that turns off all unicode compression and all "allow zero length" in an access database (.mdb) . The method for turning off Allow Zero Length works very well ... However , the method for turning off Unicode compression does not work at all and returns the following exception : Multiple-step OLE DB operati...

Use ADOX or ADOX and ADODB to query and edit data

I am trying to figure out how to use ADO and ADODB to get data and view it while also being able to determine the PK so that I can alter data. My plan is to use ADODB to display some data to an end user in Excel, if the user wants to edit the data there will be a macro monitoring cell changes and then sending the change to the database....

#import ADOX conflict with managed dll using ADO

I have a legacy C++ application using /clr calling a managed dll (written in C#) The app uses #import to reference ADOX. The dll also references ADOX. Everything is fine until I add a reference to my dll to the C++ project. Then I get hundreds of errors when compiling STDAFX.CPP related to msadox.tli and msadox.tlh. Some of the errors ...