I have a website that uses asp.net 3.5 and Sql server 2008 as backend data store . now we want to add a new page to our website . but the data that we want to share in this page is already being created and saved by a FoxPro software in one of our local systems.
I’ve no experience in FoxPro . is there any way to use this data in our site ? specially without being have to create a new database in server and importing or writing all records all over again ? what is the best way in such a situation ?
by the way , is it possible to change the extension of a FoxPro database or not ? something like Database.customExt ?
You can connect to a FoxPro database using an OLEDB datasource in ADO.NET. It’s up to you whether you feel the need to import the data into SQL Server or just access it directly in FoxPro. It would depend on whether you want to join the data with the SQL Server data in queries for one thing.