Xbase to BCB

Ricardo Cescon

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Jun 29, 2004, 8:54:33 AM6/29/04

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Hello I´m a newbie in C/C++ World,

our company will change in the next month all applications from Xbase to C/C++,

have somebody expirience form Xbase to C/C++

best regards

Ricardo Cescon
Software Developer

transact
Elektronische Zahlungssysteme GmbH
A Euronet Worldwide Company

Leo Siefert

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Jun 30, 2004, 9:31:20 AM6/30/04

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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:54:33 +0200, "Ricardo Cescon"
<r.ce...@transact-gmbh.de> wrote:

>our company will change in the next month all
>applications from Xbase to C/C++,
>
>have somebody expirience form Xbase to C/C++

Sure - still use both extensively, and often with the same data
source.

Are you really planning to use CBX for this? At its current state of
development, there is little in CBX to make this easy, though it is
certainly possible. I would suggest that you look at BCB 6 which
includes much more support for building database and client/server
applications.

- Leo

Robert Ehteshamzadeh (Borland QA)

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Jun 30, 2004, 1:40:34 PM6/30/04

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In my understaning of XBase ( DBase, Foxpro, Clipper, etc. )
the language builds in the code to talk to the database files.

There are C++ libraries to allow you to use the same database files,
( usually .dbf ). BCB6 has good support for this.

But you probably are more interested in migrating to a client-server
database ( Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL ) which is another issue.

For questions about support for various databases,
see borland.public.cbuilderx.dbexpress or
borland.public.cbuilderx.sqlservers

Leo Siefert

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Jun 30, 2004, 4:20:08 PM6/30/04

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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:40:34 -0700, "Robert Ehteshamzadeh (Borland
QA)" <rehtesh...@borland.com> wrote:

>For questions about support for various databases,
>see borland.public.cbuilderx.dbexpress or
>borland.public.cbuilderx.sqlservers

Except that those two groups combined have had a total of fewer than
20 posts since they were started. Some of the responses there suggest
trying the Delphi groups which are more active, but which are more
appropriate to using VCL (BCB) than to CBX. (I, for one, do monitor
the CBX groups and would respond to any questions posted there if I
were able.)

- Leo

Darrel Couzens

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Nov 24, 2004, 1:20:00 PM11/24/04

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Ricardo,

Just wondering if you were up to speed on what is being done with Alaska
Software's XBase++. SQL libraries are on the market which allow you to
do most, if not all, of the procedures you could do in native SQL.

As XBase++ is 100% Clipper compatible, this means that you could migrate
all your apps from dbf to SQL without having to re-write the business
logic until you have time to sit down and work it all out in C++

-Darrel

Leo Siefert

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Nov 29, 2004, 10:01:29 AM11/29/04

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:20:00 -0800, Darrel Couzens
<dar...@innsourcesolutions.com> wrote:

>Just wondering if you were up to speed on what is being done with Alaska
>Software's XBase++.

Don't see how that's relevant here - it's not even a C++ product, just
a native xBase code compiler.

Other products, such as Advantage (free for non client/server) and
CodeBase are designed to support xBase files in C++. Advantage also
supports SQL queries and both provide very easy transition to a
client/server setting with their proprietary servers.

- Leo