Microsoft OLE DB 2.0 Programmer's Reference and Data Access Software Development Kit (Microsoft Professioal Editions)

By Microsoft Corporation

Build business applications that exploit all of your organization's information resources--in whatever form and from wherever they reside in the enterprise--with Microsoft's powerful OLE DB 2.0... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735605904
• ISBN13: 9780735605909
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Essential tool for delivering data to applications on Win32

This book follows the form that has been used for a number of SDK and specification publications lately (such as for ODBC 3.0, OLE DB 1.1, and the Jet Database engine). The first 254 pages provides the model and descriptive information. The rest is the OLE DB Reference. The book is more ungainly to handle than the earlier OLE DB 1.1 Programmer's Reference and SDK (which was only 700pp, including 165pp of description).The CD-ROM has quite a bit of material and for me is the most valuable part of the combination, even though much of it is available separately through Microsoft Web sites and other product CD-ROMS. The README.TXT provides this information:"The Microsoft Data Access Components CD contains the 2.0 release of the Microsoft Data Access Components (ADO, OLE DB and ODBC) so you can begin developing solutions today. In addition to the technology contained on this CD, white papers and other documentation is included to help you get started." There are 41.5 MB of material on the CD-ROM. A 5.33MB directory in Help-file Format includes an on-line version of the specifications and documentation for the SDK. The HTML HELP Format requires that you have IE 4.0x or that you install the Help viewer that will operate with the Microsoft *.chm help-file format. You can access the documentation on the CD-ROM or copy it to your own system for usage. Documentation covers several OLE DB 2.0 providers and a toolkit for rolling your own simple providers. There is also documentation for OLE DB Test Tools and Samples. Since the complete OLE DB 2.0 specification is included here in a searchable, HTML-formatted cross-linked form as a hyperdocument, this is a valuable substitute for the book and appears well-integrated with the SDK and supplemental documentation.The promised supplemental information and white papers include a conformance testing suite and guidelines for achieving a desirable level of conformance.