> I am trying to switch Dialects from 1 to 3 at runtime, by changing
> the property on TIB_DataBase. Although the property changes to
> 3, I still Dialect 1 error messages.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is it not possible to change the
> Dialect in this way?

You don't change the dialect this way. Dialect is actually structural and
tied to the dataset. The reason you can set that is if you were about to
call the CreateDatabase method.

create a whole new database from a script with dialect 3 and pump in your
data.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com