TAccessDSNCreator 1.002

TAccessDSNCreator - ever needed to create a Microsoft Access Datasource Name (DSN) on the fly from inside your Delphi code? We certainly have! This incredibly useful little Delphi component allows you to create, modify and delete DSNs at runtime from a Delphi application (32 bit only).

Why would you want to do this? Quite often we (as developers at GWAcc) find ourselves having to climb into the control panel and muck around inside the ODBC32 applet. It gets annoying, especially if you have to do it several times in a row, even more so when it means having to switch between changing user names, passwords, paths, exclusivity... you get the idea!

Installation
Unzip the package you downloaded.
In Delphi, go to "Components" | "Install Packages" menu item, click on the "Add" button and select MSAccessDSN_Dxx.bpl file from. A new page will appear on the component palette (GWACC) with the component(s) on it. In order to compile and run the included example application, as well as any other application you create using this component, you will also need to add the path to the .dcu files to your environment search path.

Do this in Delphi by going to "Tools" | "Environment Options" | "Library" and adding the path to the "Library Path" settings. If dont add the path to the Delphi Library Search Path, youll get an error when compiling an application that the compiler can not find AccessDSNCreateUnit.pas or AccessDSNCreateUnit.dcu.