Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Msdasc.txt File Contents
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Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
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This article contains a copy of the information in the Windows 98
Second Edition Msdasc.txt file.
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Microsoft(R) Data Link API version 2.1 Readme File
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(c) 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements
the Microsoft Data Link API documentation.
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CONTENTS
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1. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
2. NEW FEATURES
3. TECHNICAL NOTES
4. KNOWN BUGS, LIMITATIONS, AND WORKAROUNDS
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1. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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Microsoft Data Link API provides a common user interface for defining and
managing connections to OLE DB data sources. This user interface can also
be called using an application programming interface, the Data Link API.
You can save the connection information to a data link file (.udl). Then
you can modify these files through the Data Links Property page, and
applications can use them in creating connections to various OLE DB data
stores. The Data Link API provides applications the ability to select,
load, or save .udl files.
The same user interface used to manage connection information in .udl files
can be used by applications to gather connection information from users
when doing ad-hoc connections to OLE DB data stores. The Data Link API
allows applications to obtain a string version of the connection
information from an existing OLE DB datasource object, create a datasource
object from an existing connection string, or use the Data Links dialog box
to edit the connection properties of an uninitialized OLE DB data source
object.
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2. NEW FEATURES
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IDBPromptInitialize::PromptDataSource now supports both provider and
provider type filters.
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3. TECHNICAL NOTES
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None
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4. KNOWN BUGS, LIMITATIONS, AND WORKAROUNDS
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Limitation: The 2.1 release of the Data Link API does not support creating
remote providers. Calling IDataInitialize::CreateDBInstanceEx for anything
other than a local provider will fail.
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