In Delphi for Win32, how to read and write a dbf file in a native way, without the BDE? I know there are some components available in the web, but I have never used any of them, so I don't know which to choose (if any).
You can use ADO to access a DBF File
See ths sample code (using an TAdoConnection
and TAdoDataSet
components).
var
dbf_folder : string;
begin
dbf_folder:='c:\bdd';//set your dbf folder location here
ADOConnection1.LoginPrompt:=false;
ADOConnection1.ConnectionString:=Format('Provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=%s;Extended Properties=dBase IV;',[dbf_folder]);
try
ADOConnection1.Connected:=True;
ADODataSet1.CommandText:='Select * from file.dbf'; //make your SQL query using the name of the dbf file
ADODataSet1.Open;
while not ADODataSet1.eof do
begin
//do your stuff here
//ADODataSet1.FieldByName('').AsString
ADODataSet1.Next;
end;
except
on E : Exception do
ShowMessage(E.Message);
end;
end;