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Running CodeExplorer from any directory (even from within the IDE) gives error message: "Purebasic not found".

Regards
mjw

Hi Paul and Kiffi,

Thanks again for your valued help.

I share Paul's opinion on PureBasic being unable to open databases without having previously defined a datasource (opening a DSN-less connection). Perhaps in the next release...

The German library PBOSL_ExDatabase, suggested by Kiffi, seems to ...

First, thank you very much, Paul, for helping me.

You might be able to create a file DSN programatically (they are just text) and use that, haven't tried it though. (you can create one in control panel once, open it, look at the text then try and create it programatically. It's basically a connect ...

Hi,

Is there a way to open a remote (SQL Server) database without defining it first in Windows Control Panel - Data Sources?

Eg.
OpenDataBase_DSN(#DbHandle, "SQL.MYSERVER.COM", params... )

Can anybody give me a hint how to do it?

Kind regards
mjw