PRB: Cannot Call W3DBLIB.DLL Functions from Macro Languages

Last reviewed: April 25, 1997
Article ID: Q73213

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SQL Server Programmer's Toolkit, version 4.2

SYMPTOMS

The program cannot properly call the Windows version 3.0 DB-Library (DB-Lib) functions in W3DBLIB.DLL from the Word for Windows or Excel for Windows macro languages.

CAUSE

Most of the DB-Lib functions in W3DBLIB.DLL either return a pointer or take a pointer as a parameter. Neither the Word for Windows or Excel for Windows macro languages has a pointer data type. Thus, neither can accept a pointer as a return value from a db-lib function or pass a pointer to a db-lib function.

WORKAROUND

This is a limitation of the Word for Windows and Excel for Windows macro languages.

Additional query words: dblib
Keywords : kbprg SSrvDB_Lib SSrvProg
Version : 4.2
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: April 25, 1997
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