Visual Basic -----> front end to StarOffice 6.0 ??

[Guest FenestraeNunquam]

I am in the middle of some VB college courses and I am looking to learn how to use VB for a front end for MS Access.

 

I am using a win2000 Pro machine for my college work. I have an old version of ms office installed (office 97). However, I want a newer office suite. I would like to avoid shelling out big bucks for office xp, or office 2002 or whatever. I refuse to pay for office XP anyway - only install on one machine... forget it...! So I was wondering if staroffice 6.0 database files could be used with VB 6.0 to practice making "front ends" with.

 

I have used staroffice on my mdk 9.0 machine and I like it. I would like to put StarOffice 6.0 on my win2000 machine for school work (all work has to be submitted in MS Word format - which is no problem for staroffice I know.

 

I was just wondering if the database portion of SO would be compatible with my VB learning. Probably just wishful thinking, but thought I would ask anyway.

[Cannonfodder]

The database portion is unimportant really. You can use mysql for example. What you need to study is ADO (active data objects). With this and vb, you can open a connection to a database and do sql with any database. ADO is a component you can enable through Visual basic's IDE.