FILE: White Paper: Choosing the Right VB5 Data Access Interface

 Last reviewed: October 31, 1997
Article ID: Q175947
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

The purpose of this paper is to help customers decide which Visual Basic data access interface makes sense now, and in the future for any given application. This paper is split into two parts to address these issues separately. It is clear that there are plenty of "right" solutions from which to choose. The real question is, which does the job today and best positions your team and application for what is coming in the future? Developers find it especially difficult to work with future solutions that don't meet today's real problems. Fortunately, Visual Basic developers do not have to take that course when deciding among today's solutions.

MORE INFORMATION

This white paper about choosing the right data access interface for your needs is available for download as a self-extracting executable Word document from the Microsoft Software Library: 

 ~ Choosing.exe (size: 33842 bytes)
For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
You can also view this white paper at the following URL: (c) Microsoft Corporation 1997, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Arsenio Locsin, Microsoft Corporation 
Keywords          : vb5all
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbfile

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Last reviewed: October 31, 1997
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