16Bit Application & 32-Bit Db

I want to know if I can access a 32-Bit Database (Access 97)
using a 16-Bit Application (VC++ 1.52).

Thanks a lot in advance,
Nimesh.

[stuarty]

Well 16 to 32bit interoperability can be tricky. But I had similar problems a while back. The way I got around it was to write a COM executable. This was the only way I could see, how to interoperate 16 and 32bit systems. The COM executable does all the 16/32 bit marshaling for you. Thus you will have to write a middle tier executable to handle all your database calls and pass all the information back and forth from the COM executable.

[Sam Hobbs]

In the ODBC section of the Platform SDK, see the "Compatibility Matrix" topic. You might also want to look in the "Types of Drivers" topic, but don't ask me what it means because I am not sure.