Get data in a .dbf file using c#

Question

How can I get the data in a .dbf file using c#??

What I want to do is to read the data in each row (same column) to further process them.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You may create a connection string to dbf file, then using OleDb, you can populate a dataset, something like:

string constr = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=directoryPath;Extended Properties=dBASE IV;User ID=Admin;Password=;";
using (OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(constr))
            {
                var sql = "select * from " + fileName;
                OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(sql, con);
                con.Open();
                DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ;
                OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(cmd);
                da.Fill(ds);
            }

Later you can use the ds.Tables[0] for further processing.

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