ODBC Auto Connection

Hi ,
I have a question about the ODBC Connection.
As you know in order to use an Access data base you need to create a user DSN that will make the data base connection....
When I'm making a CVI software and later build a distribution of my soft I want to do the connection automatically in the install any idea's how can I do that ?
Kobi Kalif
Software Engineer

Hi,
There is function SQLConfigDataSource , but i do not have any experience with this function.
Instead i use SQLDriverConnect which do not use DSN name but connection string.
Example for FireBird Conection string:
"Driver={Firebird/InterBase(r) driver};Uid=UserName;Pwd=Password;DbName=c:\path\database.fdb";
good list of connection string is on http://www.connectionstrings.com/
i hope this help

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