how to read from idx file

[SABhatti]

please read here

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[led mike]

The same way you read any file, you know and use the file format specification. Unless of course you are a magician and then you can just use magic.

[SABhatti]

Oh.. so kind of you for showing your magic show here Mike. I appreciate it. But I think you must have missed the actual question that was posted in asp.net forum originally.. which is how to connect to idx file and show the data on the page instead of getting it from the actual db server.

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[led mike]

SABhatti wrote:

But I think you must have missed the actual question that was posted in asp.net

No i did not miss it. So my answer is still the same. Do you not understand my answer?

[SABhatti]

well, I know that I can read the file like any other file. but I don't know how to read the data from idx file along with its schema. In short I am looking for way to connect to idx files using username and password, if you can give any tip that will be good.

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[led mike]

SABhatti wrote:

looking for way to connect to idx files using username and password,

Since you didn't specify I am guessing you mean the Database username and password, is that correct? If so, in your last post you said this:

SABhatti wrote:

instead of getting it from the actual db server.

So you want to get it without using the database server by using the database server, is that about it? :confused:

[SABhatti]

let me give u some detail, you might have an idea that some companies develop the page, an activeX, and made a CD along with a .dat and .idx file. Now the end users install the application on their machines, use that page to validate some data e.g. some company name against the CD, the page uses the activeX control to validate information entered by the user against the idx file on the CD and show results, if any, on the page. All this is done through the activeX control which reads from the idx file on the CD. I want to know how to validate/read the information from the IDX file? hope you understand my question now.

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