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DOC: Visual Basic Does Not Allow You to Build OLE DB Providers

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Summary

The Visual Basic 6.0 documentation incorrectly states that Visual Basic 6.0 can build an OLE DB provider.

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While Visual Basic 6.0 does not allow you to build an OLE DB provider, it does ship with libraries that allow you to build components that implement an OLE DB Simple Provider. You could create such a component to interact with text files or custom file formats. The AXData project group sample demonstrates how to build such a component.

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Keywords: KB196956, kbpending, kbdocfix

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Article Info
Article ID : 196956
Revision : 4
Created on : 6/24/2004
Published on : 6/24/2004
Exists online : False
Views : 528