Access to Xojo

Getting Started
1

Hi

I use to buil app with Access and I currently had an app in Access .accdb is it possible to access it on a Mac with Xojo?

Thanks in advance

Kind regards,
Anthony

2

You can be lucky:

http://www.mbs-plugins.de

Currently 4th article is about connecting to Access.
Client uses it for Mac, Windows and Linux :slight_smile:

3

You can do it using the ODBCDatabase class with an ODBC driver from Actual Technologies.

OLEObject and ADO can also be used on Windows, but not OS X. An example is here:

Example Projects/Platform-Specific/Windows/LoadMSAccessUsingADO

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[quote=242430:@Christian Schmitz]You can be lucky:

http://www.mbs-plugins.de

Currently 4th article is about connecting to Access.
Client uses it for Mac, Windows and Linux :-)[/quote]

Old post, but it took me a while to find the post three years later. So I’ll link it here directly for others: https://www.mbs-plugins.de/archive/2016-01-18/Encrypted_Access_database_in_X/monkeybreadsoftware_blog_xojo