You can use LINQ to VFP to read from and write to DBF files. I use it to edit some dBase III files, works like charm.
You define your table to match the DBF definition like this:
public partial class MyTable
{
public System.Int32 ID { get; set; }
public System.Decimal Field1 { get; set; }
public System.String Field2 { get; set; }
public System.String Field3 { get; set; }
}
You define the context like this:
public partial class Context : DbEntityContextBase
{
public Context(string connectionString)
: this(connectionString, typeof(ContextAttributes).FullName)
{
}
public Context(string connectionString, string mappingId)
: this(VfpQueryProvider.Create(connectionString, mappingId))
{
}
public Context(VfpQueryProvider provider)
: base(provider)
{
}
public virtual IEntityTable<MyTable> MyTables
{
get { return this.GetTable<MyTable>(); }
}
}
You define context attributes like this:
public partial class ContextAttributes : Context
{
public ContextAttributes(string connectionString)
: base(connectionString) {
}
[Table(Name="mytable")]
[Column(Member="ID", IsPrimaryKey=true)]
[Column(Member="Field1")]
[Column(Member="Field2")]
[Column(Member="Field3")]
public override IEntityTable<MyTable> MyTables
{
get { return base.MyTables; }
}
}
You also need a connection string, you can define it in app.config like this (Data\ relative path is used as the source of DBF files in this case):
<connectionStrings>
<add name="VfpData" providerName="System.Data.OleDb"
connectionString="Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=Data\;"/>
</connectionStrings>
And finally, you can perform reading and writing to and from DBF files as simple as:
// Construct a new context
var context = new Context(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["VfpData"].ConnectionString);
// Write to MyTable.dbf
var my = new MyTable
{
ID = 1,
Field1 = 10,
Field2 = "foo",
Field3 = "bar"
}
context.MyTables.Insert(my);
// Read from MyTable.dbf
Console.WriteLine("Count: " + context.MyTables.Count());
foreach (var o in context.MyTables)
{
Console.WriteLine(o.Field2 + " " + o.Field3);
}
