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help with saving visual basic 6 data / variables

Started by Samjula , Feb 01 2007 12:48 PM

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Samjula

Posted 01 February 2007 - 12:48 PM

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hi all, im making this vb program for my a level coursework and it involves storing a load of data for different people, like name and adress etc. I could have used access for it, but ive been learning vb recently and would like to try it. How can i store these fields so that when i quit vb and load it up again. The records for the different people are still there. Can you save them to a text file and then tell vb to fetch the information from a certain line of the file? Any help to make this work would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

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Phil

Posted 05 February 2007 - 11:42 AM

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You should really use a database with your programme. VB will integrate with access quite well and will also integrate with MySQL, Postgre etc. with an ODBC.

If you don't want to use a database on the back end, you can just use a flat file system which will act as a database using separator characters between fields and users.

The database option is massively easier and more efficient. I don't really like access as a RDBMS but as the backend of a VB project it isn't too bad.

~Phil~