[AccessD] ODBC instead of DAO?

[Rocky Smolin]

I love obsolete technology. IT WORKS!!! And it always will.

R

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 3:56 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Reading the docs at Microsoft Learn, I came across a notice that DAO is now
> considered obsolete, and the suggestion that for new apps, we should use
> ODBC classes instead.
> The page begins with this paragraph:
>
> DAO is used with Access databases and is supported through Office 2013. DAO
> 3.6 is the final version, and it is considered obsolete.
>
> Further down the page is this notice:
>
> Programs that use DAO databases will have at least a CDaoDatabase object
> and a CDaoRecordset object.
>
>  Note
>
> The Visual C++ environment and wizards no longer support DAO (although the
> DAO classes are included and you can still use them). Microsoft recommends
> that you use ODBC for new MFC projects. You should only use DAO in
> maintaining existing applications.
> The note is directed at C++ programmers, but does it apply across the
> board?
>
> Does it also mean that ADO is obsolete as well?
>
> Have any of you switched from DAO|ADO to the ODBC classes? If so, how
> painful is it? Will the ODBC classes do everything that DAO and ADO can do?
>
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