Re: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6

That's right... build an OCX for the interface. Try to keep to industry
standards when they exist and use your best judgement on the rest. This OCX
can contain various concepts, ODBC, ADO, Sockets, ... or whatever the next
standard may be.

Also... if you build your OCX and a stand alone executable, simply an EXE
versus DLL, you will have more control over how it launches.

If you are interested in a running example, I know where to go.

Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
AS/400 Professional Administrator/MSE
Client Access Specialist
http://www.cm-inc.com/



                    Vernon Hamberg
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                    08/09/2002 10:29 PM
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But for info, get the Client Access Express Toolkit installed. Lots of
examples that use various ways of getting data to/from the 400. Also shows
how to use some OCX that interface more directly with the 400.

Look in Start->Programs->IBM AS400 Client Access Express for the Express
Toolkit item. If it's not there, do a selective setup to get it installed.

ODBC or OLE/DB are basically the same, no matter the database, as Walden
says.

At 02:18 PM 8/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
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>I would like to LEARN how I can have my VB6 applications connect to our
>AS/400 and access data to use in my VB6 applications.  I am a beginner at
>VB6.  I'm just going to write simple VB6 applications to
>update/delete/write records to an AS/400 database file.
>
>Does anyone have any kind of pdf documents or websites that would point me
>in the right direction?
>
>TIA,
>
>Frank W. Kany IV
>The Law Offices of Burr & Reid
>www.burr-reid.org
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