[AccessD] A2K and .Net

This is just a maybe grasping at straws here but if you install Office 
2003 Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies
and If you are coming from dotNet and use these PIA's just maybe you can 
do it.
Shamil has used these.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;897646&spid=2509&sid=global
And from these classes
Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.dll
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.dll
dao.dll

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/OfficePrimaryInteropAssembliesFAQ.asp

Charlotte Foust wrote:

>If you want to use Access functions, you need to be *in* Access.
>However, if the environment doesn't support those functions, they won't
>work anyhow.  Left, Mid, etc., are VBA functions, not Access functions,
>and trying to use VBA functions in managed code in .Net can give you
>entirely unexpected results even when you don't get an outright error.
>Is there a reason you are reluctant to change the queries?  
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Griffiths, Richard [mailto:R.Griffiths at bury.gov.uk] 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:06 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K and .Net
>
>
>Ken
>thanks, as I thought. I accept that you would need to install all the
>VBA dlls, but are you sure that you would need to instantiate an Access
>session.  I'm sure most apps would use left, mid etc in queries and this
>would mean say for all the many 1000's of VB apps that have an Access BE
>they would need to install Access (runtime or full) and load an instance
>each time a query was used.  Have you tried this?  
> 
>I have tried to use native JetSQL but for this query have struggled ,
>maybe someone can offer a solution.......
> 
> 
>I have two datetime fields UnavailableFrom and UnavailableTo (e.g.
>01/01/2005 08:30 and 01/01/2005 18:30)
> 
>Can anyone suggest any SQL (and also native JetSQL without function
>calls [or with permitted function calls]) to find whether a date falls
>between these two datetimes - so a parameter of say 01/01/2005 would
>return this record.
> 
>Thanks
>Richard
>
>________________________________
>
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Ken Ismert
>Sent: Tue 05/07/2005 18:38
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K and .Net
>
>
>
>Yes, they will fail. This is not unique to .NET. Simply put, if you open
>a Jet database using DAO, ADO, or ADO.NET, any queries that reference
>VBA functions like DateAdd will fail.
>
>Your earlier thinking was correct: to get DateAdd to work in a query,
>you would need Access installed on the machine, and would have to open
>it via automation. The Access application instance would then provide
>the VBA environment required to make sense of VBA function calls.
>
>.NET won't interpret the function calls, nor can you substitute .NET
>functions. This is because your ADO calls are going to a separate Jet
>server instance, which has no knowledge of the context in which it is
>called.
>
>In short, you are limited to native Jet SQL for your queries. This
>includes the aggregate functions like Sum and Avg, mathematical
>operators and string concatenation, and the expressions Between, In and
>Like. You may also be able to extend your reach by using the ODBC Scalar
>functions, although I haven't tried this.
>
>-Ken
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Griffiths, Richard [mailto:R.Griffiths at bury.gov.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:21 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K and .Net
>
>Do you know if my queries (stored procedures) that use say dateadd (ie
>hard coded into the query) will fail?
>
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