| Platform SDK: CDO for Windows 2000 |
The technologies used to build applications with CDO for Windows 2000, such as Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), are COM components. When setting up your C++ development environment, you need only to include the appropriate type information (interfaces and enumerations) and GUIDs to start working immediately. In most cases, header files that contain this type information are provided in the Platform SDK. Additionally, most COM components have an associated type library contained as a resource in the dynamic link library that can be used to extract type information. The names and locations of these files are discussed in the following sections.
Using C++ provides the greatest amount of flexibility and speed when building applications. In addition to using CDO and ADO, you can use native OLE DB interfaces and functions in your applications.
This section discusses the following topics: