Windows 7 Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver

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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”

20/03/2014

Anonymous

THANK YO THANK YOU FOR THIS….

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1. 26/03/2014
  
  Anonymous
  
  This was very helpful. Fixed my issues and locating this driver was difficult at best
  
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02/04/2014

Djati

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

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22/04/2014

Sarva

nice one!

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28/04/2014

Anonymous

thank you so much

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13/05/2014

Canutesoft (@canutesoft)

thank you for posting this its most helpful

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05/06/2014

marykdba

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

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1. 05/06/2014
  
  Jason Lewis
  
  Your welcome marykdba
  
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04/07/2014

Celeste

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

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28/08/2014

PG

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

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20/09/2014

GeoffD

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

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14/11/2014

Anonymous

Thank you Jason you are a star

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20/11/2014

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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21/11/2014

Anonymous

Are you an Angel? A lot of thanks

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09/01/2015

Anonymous

THANKS!

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05/03/2015

Romel

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

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20/03/2015

Israel Alcalde

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

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26/03/2015

Anonymous

gracias, solucione el problema

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28/03/2015

Anonymous

Thanks a lot

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08/06/2015

Paul

Thank you very much.

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27/07/2015

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.

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16/11/2015

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

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07/01/2016

Alejandro

Thank you I was crazy looking for this 🙂
Muchas gracias

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02/03/2016

Dave Jong A Lock

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

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17/04/2016

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

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16/07/2016

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.

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1. 18/07/2016
  
  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.
  
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27/01/2017

KD

Hi,
Can anyone please share the file here?

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1. 28/01/2017
  
  Jason Lewis
  
  Hi KD, there is a link for the file above
  
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