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Overview of OLE DB Templates

The OLE DB Templates make the high-performance OLE DB database technology easier to use by providing classes that implement many of the commonly used OLE DB interfaces. Along with this template library comes wizard support for creating OLE DB starter applications.

This template library contains two parts:

  • OLE DB Consumer Templates   Used to implement an OLE DB client (consumer) application.

  • OLE DB Provider Templates   Used to implement an OLE DB server (provider) application.

To use the OLE DB Templates, you should be familiar with C++ templates, COM, and the OLE DB interfaces. If you aren't familiar with OLE DB, see the .

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