MDAC Technology Features

This article describes many of the useful features available in the Microsoft® Data Access Components (MDAC) SDK, focusing on what you, the developer, can accomplish with them.

The following topics are included:

• Managing Data describes how you can access data where it's stored and achieve data source neutrality.
• Developer Advantages covers extensibility, scalability, optimizations, ease of use, and asynchronous support features. Many of these features are especially relevant to ADO users.
• Service Providers describes features available in the Service Component Manager, Data Shaping Service, Cursor Service, Synchronization Service, Remoting Provider, and Persistence Provider.
• XML briefly describes how XML can be used to stream and persist rowsets.
• Other Features contains information about session pooling, automatic transaction enlistment, the connection information user interface, data conversion, and support for Microsoft Visual Studio® Analyzer.