Question

I have a file, which I am able read with a windows application using odbc driver,

File :-

col1, col2, col3, col4
1,2,3,4
a,b,c,d
e,f,g,h
5,6,7,8
1,b,2,c

I need read it with a HandHeld with Windows Mobile. I have sqlce but I dont find odbc driver for windows mobile. How can I do queries to text files? Earlier I read it line by line and inserted it onto a database; but now I have to do this process using a odbc connection. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Windows CE/Windows Mobile has no ODBC support at all. That means that for text file access you have to open the file with something like a TextReader and manually parse the file with ReadLine and string.Split.

You might consider a third-party wrapper like the SDF’s TextDataAdapter, which does the parsing for you and will push the text into a DataSet but it really depends on the complexity of what you want to do.