mpp File format

[elCodo]

How do you directly read the mpp file format?

 

[JackD]

You read it with Microsoft Project. That is the only known method.
The binary format of the file is proprietary.
Possibly you could decode it, but I know of no one who has.

-Jack

 

[Rod Gill]

For Project 2002 and 2003 you can read directly from a .mpp file using
oledb. Also a limited read with oledb for Project 2000. Oledb driver is read
only.

Other solution is to open all .mpp files and save into an ODBC database.
Then data can be read/written to the database.

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[JackD]

Rod,

Good suggestions, but isn't Project required to be installed to get the
oledb provider?

-Jack

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

Yes. I hadn't realised there was a requirement not to have Project
installed? I really like the oledb provider: I've done quite a lot of very
productive macros now consolidating data from multiple .mpp files. It often
eliminates the need to save projects to a database for multi-project
reporting.

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[Yuhong]

I have had hard time to read project file(database) from Access 2003 using
OLEDB provider 11.o which come with Project 2003. I got Provider was not
supported error. I also tried to to read project file from VS.NET server
explorer, I can connect and browse the table names but when I try to retreive
the content of the table, I keep getting "Invalid table name". Can you tell
me what I missed here?

Thanks in advance!

--Yuhong

 

[Rod Gill]

Read the pjoledb.htm file in one of Project's program folders. There is
working code there and a description of all tables and fields.



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[liu]

do you know how to display the gantt chart from MS
Project, the .mpp file on the web???

from your prevoius replies in the newsgroups, i know
that we can read the data from the .mpp file by using
the oledb, but can we display the gantt chart on
asp/asp.net??? isit possible and how?

thanks

 

[liu]

do you know how to display the gantt chart from MS
Project, the .mpp file on the web???

from your prevoius replies in the newsgroups, i know
that we can read the data from the .mpp file by using
the oledb, but can we display the gantt chart on
asp/asp.net??? isit possible and how?

thanks

 

[liu]

do you know how to display the gantt chart from MS
Project, the .mpp file on the web???

from your prevoius replies in the newsgroups, i know
that we can read the data from the .mpp file by using
the oledb, but can we display the gantt chart on
asp/asp.net??? isit possible and how?

thanks