Well I run into an interesting problem today using c# to create a Web Service that accesses FoxPro Tables. After getting everything in place, and getting the ASPX file to compile I started getting an ODBC error. Turns out that when you install FoxPro it doesn't necessarily install the actual FoxPro ODBC Drivers, so you get an error when trying to call the open() method.
I will say this, the more I work with .net the more I am liking being forced back to the Case Sensitive and Structured programming arena. I didn't realize just how lazy my development had gotten. Its amazing how much I curse C# for forcing me to type my variables the same every time.....
One more thing, for a Web Server that allows someone to search data, it would be nice to put checks in to see if it even found anything... .Net is picky about trying to access datasets that don't have anything in them....
posted @ Monday, January 08, 2007 4:11 PM