INFO: Visigenic Oracle ODBC Driver Support in Visual FoxPro

ID: Q148885

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0

SUMMARY

Visual FoxPro 3.0b ships with an Oracle ODBC driver that was provided by Visigenic Corporation. This is a 32-bit driver that will be installed with Visual FoxPro on Windows 95 and Windows NT. This driver ships with many other 32-bit Microsoft products and is also available for download.

NOTE: As of 12/9/98, Visigenic Corporation has been acquired by INPRISE, Inc.

For information about how to contact INPRISE, Inc., query in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for one of the following articles:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q65416
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60781
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60782
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

   ARTICLE-ID: Q140255
   TITLE     : GE1263: Microsoft ODBC Drivers for 32-Bit Programs

MORE INFORMATION

Windows 95

As with all previous versions of the Oracle ODBC drivers, the Visigenic driver requires that the appropriate Oracle client software (SQL*Net) be installed on the system before the driver will work properly. Currently, Oracle does not have a version of SQL*Net that is supported on Windows 95; therefore the Visigenic driver is not supported on Windows 95.

Visigenic Corporation has identified a workaround for using their Oracle ODBC driver with Windows 95. For more information about this possible workaround, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q140498
   TITLE     : INF: Using the Visigenic Oracle Driver on WinNT & Win95

Windows NT

Under Windows NT, the Visigenic driver will work with either the 1.1x or the 2.1x versions of the Oracle 32bit SQL*Net libraries.

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