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Hello
Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to do the costing for items.
so the problem is i need to get the data from the excel book and use it in my app but they obviously dont want the other people using the app to download or have access to the file as it contains all their suppliers etc...
is there a way to load the info from a excel file into a .net app directly without downloading the file??
thanks !!!
Willie
Hello
I wanna develop an android app to view all school record in app. The user search school record though this app.
So the problem is I need to get the data from access data base file. And use it in my app but I don’t wanna the other peoples using this app to download/read/see or access to the file as it contains all school records etc…….
Is there a way to load the info/file from access database file(.mdb) into an android app directly without download the file?????
Hi Haseeb, as discussed earlier in this thread, in order to access the content of a file via the Dropbox API, you need to download it. In a client-side app like on Android, this will mean that the access token will need to be in the app, and you can't prevent the users of your app from accessing it.
Thanks Gregory.
you say that the i need to download first and work on it?
And another question is this that the file i want to download which is database file and i wanna applying searching queries on that file and show specific record as user want.
Is this possible to access database file and applying searching techniques on it and showing in specific order in android app.?
help me i have no idea about this....
you say that the i need to download first and work on it?
That is correct - Dropbox works at the file level, so you need to download the entire file if you want to work on it.
Is this possible to access database file and applying searching techniques on it and showing in specific order in android app.?
That's beyond the scope of this forum I am afraid, as you are asking how to read data from an Microsoft Access database. Try googling or asking on StackOverflow,com
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