Invoking administration tools from within an application

abodson

New Member
Hi,

Is was wondering if there is a way to use some of the administration tools without starting up _admin.p.
More specifically, I would like to dump/load .dbf files and edit user names from within my application.

Thanks,

Alex
 

Chris Kelleher

Administrator
Staff member
Alex-

Hi there. Yes you can run almost any of the data admin tools directly from within your application, as long as you know which program to call and the parameters it might need. In fact, almost all of the Progress source code is available for most of the data admin tools.

As far as the DBF file reading and writing go, I would take a look at the code samples written and posted on Peter van Dam's web site. He gives some excellent examples for doing this fairly easily at: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~prvdam/progress.htm

You also might want to look at my site at http://www.fast4gl.com/ > Downloads > Free Applications as well for another DBF file tool.

HTH.

-Chris

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