MDAC 2.5 SDK - Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver

System Requirements

The system requirements for installation provide the minimum operating system and disk space needed to successfully install the driver. After you've installed the driver, you can select the specific application software you want to use to access Visual FoxPro data.

Installation Requirements

To install the Microsoft Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver, you need the following:

• Microsoft Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0, or Windows 2000
  
  
• 2 MB disk space

For information about installing the driver, see Setting Up the Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver.

Accessing Visual FoxPro Data

To access Microsoft Visual FoxPro or FoxPro 2.x data, you must have the following:

• ODBC Client Software (automatically installed with the driver)
  
  
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver
  
  
• Any of the following types of application software:
  • Microsoft Office application such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word
    
    
  • C or C++ language ODBC application
    
    
  • Microsoft Visual Basic ODBC application
• Any of the following types of data:
  • Visual FoxPro database or a directory of free tables
    
    
  • FoxPro 2.0, 2.5, 2.6 table

The Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver supports double-byte character sets (DBCS). For more information, see International Support.

The driver does not support 16-bit Microsoft Windows 3.1 applications.