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...let build Windows an ADO connection string?
Autor: Wilfried Mestdagh
Homepage: http://www.mestdagh.biz
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{I see always people manually building the connection string.
Wy not use the dialog that windows provide for us ? Of course
it is possible to use the PromptDataSource in ADODB, but this
give not the opportunity to see if the user has pressed OK or
Cancel, so we dont know when to save the changes. So I use this
code instead. I hope it benefit many people. Rgds, Wilfried}

uses OleDB, ComObj, ActiveX;

function ADOConnectionString(ParentHandle: THandle; InitialString: WideString;
  out NewString: string): Boolean;
var
  
DataInit: IDataInitialize;
  DBPrompt: IDBPromptInitialize;
  DataSource: IUnknown;
  InitStr: PWideChar;
begin
  
Result   := False;
  DataInit := CreateComObject(CLSID_DataLinks) as IDataInitialize;
  if InitialString <> '' then
    
DataInit.GetDataSource(nil, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, PWideChar(InitialString),
      IUnknown, DataSource);
  DBPrompt := CreateComObject(CLSID_DataLinks) as IDBPromptInitialize;
  if Succeeded(DBPrompt.PromptDataSource(nil, ParentHandle,
    DBPROMPTOPTIONS_PROPERTYSHEET, 0, nilnil, IUnknown, DataSource)) then 
  begin
    
InitStr := nil;
    DataInit.GetInitializationString(DataSource, True, InitStr);
    NewString := InitStr;
    Result    := True;
  end;
end;


 

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