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DaoEnableVersion36() function

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Purpose

Enable DAO 3.60 for your application

 

Parameters

lEnable Logic, TRUE means enable version 3.60, false leaves the system ready for 3.50.

 

Returns

A string value

 

Description

With this function you can activate DAO 3.60, the DAO Class layer on top of Microsoft Jet Engine 4.0, the Jet Engine that comes with Office 2000. This allows you to open and create databases that are/can be used with Office 2000.

It does NOT allow you to create or open Access 2000 ADP files.

 

Note

You must call this function BEFORE YOU INSTANTIATE THE JET ENGINE

There are some advantages in using DAO 3.60/Jet 4.0 over DAO 3.50/Jet 3.5:

Compatibility with Office 2000
Row Level locking
Improved Unicode support
Property lengths have been extended from 4096 to 65,500 bytes
ANSI Sql 92 support

 

See for more info DAOREAD.TXT that you can find in the directory \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Dao

 

Example

 

DaoEnableVersion36(TRUE)

oEng := DaoDbengine{}