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title: "Use the VFP FoxPro ODBC Driver with Your Visual Basic Application | Microsoft Docs"
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# Using the VFP FoxPro ODBC Driver with Your Visual Basic Application
Your Microsoft® Visual Basic® application can communicate with Visual FoxPro data by creating a data control that connects to a Visual FoxPro data source.  
  
#### To connect to Visual FoxPro data using the Data Control in Visual Basic  
  
1.  Create a data source named "test" that connects to the TasTrade sample database included in Visual FoxPro. The default Visual FoxPro installation places the TasTrade sample database in the location:  
  
    ```  
    c:\vfp\samples\mainsamp\data\tastrade.dbc  
    ```  
  
2.  In Visual Basic, create a new form and place a text box and a Data control on it.  
  
3.  Change the Data control's Connect property as follows:  
  
    ```  
    ODBC;DATABASE=tastrade;DSN=test  
    ```  
  
4.  Change the RecordsetType property to the following:  
  
    ```  
    2 - Snapshot  
    ```  
  
5.  Change the RecordSource property to the following:  
  
    ```  
    customer  
    ```  
  
6.  Change the DataSource property for the text box to the default name for the Data control to the following:  
  
    ```  
    data1  
    ```  
  
7.  Change the text box's DataField property to the following:  
  
    ```  
    customer_id  
    ```  
  
8.  Run the form, and use the Data control to skip through the customer id fields from the Visual FoxPro TasTrade sample database.