Windows 7 Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver

Microsoft have made it virtually impossible to find out how to get this driver for Windows 7.
If you are getting the error “You must first install the current version of the Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver”, you need to download this driver and install it.
Tthe file you are after is called VFPODBC.msi and can be downloaded directly from Microsoft at the time of writing. No doubt they will move that link to ensure no one can find it again.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vfoxodbcdriver/Install/6.1/W9XNT4/EN-US/VFPODBC.msi
To use it on a 64 bit windows system, you need to run the 32  bit version of ODBC: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
[update 2016-07-20]
or you could download it from here. I’ve tested and it seems to install fine in Windows 10, but I haven’t tested if it works as I don’t use FoxPro any more.
VFPODBC.msi.xz

filename md5sum</>
VFPODBC.msi 4fbb57a7efabde9925af86a239e5c93c
VFPODBC.msi.xz aa85ab82c179e4c6b2ee9200b81f8956
filename sha512sum</>
VFPODBC.msi 84aa3f1bf8dd45c7f25575a69b55672b
4f91eadfbcd29ceefaea3dbc1aedcb952c4a
8d14290fe8da0039d5d5dd681f1a86d7cf74
13d0aa36467a8ed2eeb7c8ed
VFPODBC.msi.xz 97bd6301442320df590f87cde5ffa23f
b10f45532c0a791be9ab4c2a5628474d7039
876b86593bb96561d496bcb597353bba0cbb
af7b54a7f0a6fd7e052a92a2

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29 responses to “Windows 7 Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver”

  1.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    THANK YO THANK YOU FOR THIS….

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      Anonymous

      This was very helpful. Fixed my issues and locating this driver was difficult at best

  2. Djati Avatar
    Djati

    Many thanks,Jason that’s fixing my error “you are not logged with non administrative bla bla bla ” when creating new dsn

  3. Sarva Avatar

    nice one!

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    Anonymous

    thank you so much

  5. Canutesoft (@canutesoft) Avatar

    thank you for posting this its most helpful

  6. marykdba Avatar

    Thanks so much. And your first sentence made me chuckle.

    1. Jason Lewis Avatar
      Jason Lewis

      Your welcome marykdba

  7. Celeste Avatar
    Celeste

    Thank you as well – I was pulling out my hair until I found this!

  8. PG Avatar
    PG

    Thank you a lot. This will save many applications we use.

  9. GeoffD Avatar

    Thank you very much for finding the solution.
    As you say if you rely on Microsoft then you’ll never solve it
    I’m very grateful

  10.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Thank you Jason you are a star

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    Anonymous

    Lifesaver, thanks for the link that luckily still works even though Microsoft have hidden away any references to VFP ODBC on MSDN.

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    Anonymous

    Are you an Angel? A lot of thanks

  13.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    THANKS!

  14. Romel Avatar
    Romel

    Thank you so so much. Took a long time to find a place to download the driver. Luckily, I found this blog.

  15. Israel Alcalde Avatar
    Israel Alcalde

    you’re really great, you’re the man!!!! thanks a lot my friend, best wishes!!!

  16.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    gracias, solucione el problema

  17.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Thanks a lot

  18. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Thank you very much.

  19. Mike H. Avatar
    Mike H.

    Thank you for the driver download link, which still works. I upgraded a while back from XP to Win8.1 and MSOffice 2013 when I got a new computer. The driver successfully installed on my Win8.1 64-bit system. Then, using Access 2013 32-bit, I was able to successfully link to the VFP databases used by some old software that I still use. Saved me the headache of trying some of the workarounds I had been coming across on other sites.

  20. Uli R. Avatar
    Uli R.

    Thank you very much for the link. We did awful workarounds to read the data of an old software we have to transfer

  21. Alejandro Avatar
    Alejandro

    Thank you I was crazy looking for this 🙂
    Muchas gracias

  22. Dave Jong A Lock Avatar

    At certain times this link is worth gold!
    Thanks for this file

  23.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    I have a large size of foxpro database which need to be migrated to SQL. I have application developed which could not handle the size of the data. Could you please give me any idea on how can i successfully complete this process

  24. Nagesh Avatar
    Nagesh

    Hi Jason,
    Is there anyway to download VFPODBC.msi ?
    As you have rightly mentioned, Microsoft does not allow users to download this anymore
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/vfoxodbcdriver/Install/6.1/W9XNT4/EN-US/VFPODBC.msi
    Please help!!
    I have important data to be accessed.

    1. Jason Lewis Avatar
      Jason Lewis

      Hi Nagesh,
      I had a hunt around too and looks like Microsoft have removed that file. I’m not aware of another source for it at this stage sorry.

  25. KD Avatar
    KD

    Hi,
    Can anyone please share the file here?

    1. Jason Lewis Avatar
      Jason Lewis

      Hi KD, there is a link for the file above

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