Best Approach for External Database Use in Map 3D

[Anonymous]

I am attempting to update a rather old ARX extension designed for use with Map 3D. It connects drawings to an external Oracle database, part of a facilities management system. The ARX is entirely written in C/C++, and has had many and varied developers' fingers in it over the years. Its database work is implemented using the ASE/ASI approach, which was deprecated in 2000, and finally removed in 2018. As a result, the last functional implementation of the ARX was for Map 2017.

Since ADO is deprecated, and even OLEDB was deprecated by Microsoft (but supposedly brought back to life) my thinking is to move all the external database handling to a separate DLL, and to re-implement all the Oracle work using ODBC and the standard MFC database classes (CDatabase/CRecordset/etc.). Feel free to tell me if I'm way off-base in this approach.

However, some of the work done in this ARX pre-dates any version of the Map ObjectARX SDK that I have been able to find, and it seems that the best documentation is only in very old versions. I have standard ObjectARX files going back to the 2000 timeframe, but nothing for Map from before 2007. I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to a download location for the older info.

As well, please feel free to offer up hints/suggestions/derisive laughter.

[Anonymous]

I am attempting to update a rather old ARX extension designed for use with Map 3D. It connects drawings to an external Oracle database, part of a facilities management system. The ARX is entirely written in C/C++, and has had many and varied developers' fingers in it over the years. Its database work is implemented using the ASE/ASI approach, which was deprecated in 2000, and finally removed in 2018. As a result, the last functional implementation of the ARX was for Map 2017.

Since ADO is deprecated, and even OLEDB was deprecated by Microsoft (but supposedly brought back to life) my thinking is to move all the external database handling to a separate DLL, and to re-implement all the Oracle work using ODBC and the standard MFC database classes (CDatabase/CRecordset/etc.). Feel free to tell me if I'm way off-base in this approach.

However, some of the work done in this ARX pre-dates any version of the Map ObjectARX SDK that I have been able to find, and it seems that the best documentation is only in very old versions. I have standard ObjectARX files going back to the 2000 timeframe, but nothing for Map from before 2007. I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to a download location for the older info.

As well, please feel free to offer up hints/suggestions/derisive laughter.

[lena.talkhina]

Hello @Anonymous !

Great to see you on Autodesk Community forums!

There are specifics for Map 3D, but maybe programmers from ObjectARX forum could help you?

[lena.talkhina]

Hello @Anonymous !

Great to see you on Autodesk Community forums!

There are specifics for Map 3D, but maybe programmers from ObjectARX forum could help you?