Re: Advice on building a Visual C++ front end to Oracle
From: Ed and Susan Crotty <boing_at_megsinet.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:07:33 -0600
Message-ID: <369C2A15.B2E456F5_at_megsinet.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:07:33 -0600
Message-ID: <369C2A15.B2E456F5_at_megsinet.net>
[Quoted] Borland C++ Builder (like Delphi, but C++ instead of Pascal) is
Soooooooooooooooo much easier to use for database apps -
Phill Edwards wrote:
> We are considering building a Visual C++ GUI which will talk to an Oracle 7
> or 8 backend database. Does anyone have any experience of doing this, or
> know where to find some docco on it?
>
> Any gotchas, tips, advice etc would be greatly appreciated. In particular,
> what Windows 95/98 ODBC driver do you recommend and what are its
> limitations? Is it worth trying to build lots of nice generic packages to do
> the DML or does that make everything too hard to deal with in Visual C++?
>
> TIA,
> -- Phill --
Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 06:07:33 CET