C# code for Grid to FoxPro DBF (free table)

What is the easiest way (without installing extra drivers) to open a FoxPro DBF table and link it to a DataGrid开发者_如何学运维 in WPF?

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I guess this as nothing do do specificaly with WPF. You can link almost any .net collection/data collector object to WPF data grid.

But your problem stands way before that and concerns .net data access in general. You should remove the WPF tag from your question and rather see what ADO. net can do for you.

Once this is done and that you have the content of your FoxPro db in a .net collection, then you will worry about WPF ;)

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i don't think this is possible without driver installation. see this question.

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There are ways to do it without installing new drivers but none if them are easy.

You could inspect the table at the file level - the structure is documented here: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~TableFileStructure

Or you could write a VFP exe that you can run from your C# code that dumps the table to XML. See the CURSORTOXML function for more details.

Written on my iPhone.

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Do you know how to use basic ADO.Net to connect to a FoxPro DBF table and create a Typed DataSet? That's the first step you've got to get working. From there, the task becomes binding a WPF DataGrid to a Typed DataSet.