VB6 autonomous DBF file manager
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by Diego JägerMotivation
If you ever had to deal with legacy apps, you must have come across data stored in DBF files; and if you are like me, you find it frustrating that support for DBFs will depend on factors such as which service packs are installed wherever it is your program must run - and this is often out of your control, since the “old” system must remain operative, at least until you migrate the data…or maybe you have to exchange data with such an app on a regular basis, since your client only wants to move part of his business to a new platform.
After one too many such frustrations, I decided to write a small utility that would kill this problem for me once and for all - well, at least as far as clients using VB6 go. No rocket science, but it gets the job done, and I can forget about dll-activex-SP swamps and concentrate on doing my job.
Even though I wrote this for myself, the code is pretty clear (I was planning on reusing it, and I did), so you can simply download it from here, add it to your VB6 project as an existing module and you’re ready to go.